Sentences with phrase «forage for food»

The same could happen to insect pollinators while foraging for food in polluted air masses.»

The scientists surmise that Archaeopteryx developed an edge over other tree - foraging competitors by using their jumping and wing flapping to minimize energy expenditure while foraging for food in their trees.

Our dogs have a number of basic needs, such as foraging for food, play, comfort, rest, escape from danger, interaction with people and other dogs, establishing and maintaining a territory.

Charr are visual feeders and are capable of foraging for food at very low temperatures and light levels.

Lemurs vocalize to essentially «groom - at - a-distance» and keep in touch when the group members they're closest with get separated such as when foraging for food, said first author Ipek Kulahci, who received her Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from Princeton.

That fear, known as the «flight - or - fight» response, can prompt physiological responses that stunt their growth and reproductive capability, either because they spend less time foraging for food and more time hiding or because they produce anti-predator defenses that can be energetically costly.

This comes in handy (or bill - y) since the birds forage for food in cold, murky bottom waters.

It can also sometimes vastly improve the efficiency of foraging for food.

Some scientists have suggested that polar bears may supplement their diet by foraging for food on land, turning to sources such as caribou and geese.

When carbohydrates go missing from a person's diet — as happened when humans foraged for food — the body taps its fat stores for energy.

We are also likely to witness black bears foraging for food along the steep rocky shore!

Treat Stick — Small animals forage for their food naturally.

The kits emerge from the den at three to four weeks of age and soon begin foraging for food with their parents (4).

By foraging for food in a supermarket with a bow and arrow (The Hunt, 1992), renovating an exhibition space under the auspices of a reality TV show format (The Perfect Gallery, 2010) or selling a souped - up speedboat as a work of art at an art fair (The Finest Art on Water, 2011), Jankowski proves that he is not frightened to turn the camera, canvas or microphone back on himself.

SOC, the moment my daughter was born she leaped from the doctor's arms and began foraging for food and constructing a shelter.

Most of us are able to eat without foraging for food, we wear clothes we did not make, and live in homes we did not build.

I grew up on a farm in Finland, which has been in our family for at least 13 generations, and started foraging for food at an early age.

Modified majors scouted and foraged for food for up to 50 days after treatment.

In both countries, wild monkeys live in cities and villages, foraging for food among humans — and in their trash.

Less time spent foraging for food means less to eat, which increases the likelihood of local extinction.

Meet the «Freegans» who forage for food in bins

Treat Sticks — Birds forage for their food naturally.

View the nocturnal creatures foraging for their food whilst enjoying a meal in congenial surroundings.

Newcombe said the herd had escaped its wire - fenced field Thursday and Friday and was foraging for food along the road and in the yards of nearby homes.

Wright suggests that from the time of early Natufian culture, 12 800 to 11 500 years ago, the area in which people foraged for food shrank.

Your hamster may also enjoy foraging for food in bedding.

Around 10,000 years ago, humans gradually started to shift from foraging for food to farming and began to tap new forms of energy, including domesticated animals for plowing, wind for powering mills, and human and animal waste for fertilization.

The left side of the brain, for instance, might have evolved to carry out routine operations — things like foraging for food — while the right side was kept free to detect and react rapidly to unexpected challenges in the environment — an approaching predator, for instance.

These regular deep dives to forage for food don't require rigorous exercise.

Girls start foraging for food within the first few years of life.

Biologist Cory Williams of Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff is using similar technology to track the energy consumption of arctic ground squirrels in Alaska — insight that may reveal how the animals efficiently forage for food while avoiding being picked off by golden eagles.

Because these framing effects are shared with our nonhuman relatives, Krupenye says, the results suggest that these biases are hardwired into our biology and may have conferred some evolutionary benefit as apes foraged for food.

Exactly what plants do honey bees visit on their daily forages for food in rural Madison County, Ohio?

She wondered whether the illness might be linked to eating fresh monkey meat: the villagers often foraged for food in the forest and the headmaster who was, tentatively, our «Patient Zero» had returned from his travels with several monkey and antelope carcasses.

Some colonies are full of adventurous risk - takers, whereas others are less aggressive about foraging for food and exploring the great outdoors.

The researchers then observed how each colony foraged for food and explored new environments.

BAYER BEE CARE CENTERThe findings should also be validated with research in the field, where bees forage for their food, engage behaviorally with other bees, and encounter widely varying levels of different pesticides, says ecologist Maj Rundlöf of Lund University in Sweden.

«It seemed that he required me to move, so he could access the tree,» Crockford said, explaining that Zig then foraged for food in the tree.

You typically have to forage for your food online and off the beaten path.

Father and daughter forage for food and live under the stars.

With Adam's natural wilderness acumen, the boys build a nestlike berth in the treetops and begin to forage for food after their sandwiches are eaten.

Unable to pay the eighty - dollar - a-year tuition for his education, William was forced to drop out and help his family forage for food as thousands across the country starved and died.

Kennedy foraged for food, lived on the street, and taught himself to read with old newspapers.

During these walks, the pangolin is taught to forage for food so that he can exercise his keen sense of smell and strong claws, which the animal uses to dig for ants.

Healthy sugar gliders eagerly forage for food, climb, play and scurry about their enclosure.

In the wild, dogs spend most of their waking hours foraging for food.

These felines look like regular housecats, but they've become used to living in the wild, foraging for food around garbage sites and seafood businesses.

Nocturnal animals, such as raccoons, opossums and foxes will be out foraging for food.

Skunking incidents usually occur late at night when these creatures forage for food under bushes and trees or from pets» food bowls that are left outdoors.

It's worthwhile to remember that a dog in the wild would spend all day actively foraging for food, whereas our dogs are actively sleeping on the couch all day waiting for food.