Foraging

Foraging

Foraging is searching for and exploiting food resources. It affects an animal's fitness because it plays an important role in an animal's ability to survive and reproduce. Foraging theory is a branch of behavioral ecology that studies the foraging behavior of animals in response to the environment where the animal lives.

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    “Soft are the hands of Love,
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    clutched at the thorny ground,
    scratched like a small white ferret
    or foraging whippet or hound.”
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