forager
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- noun
- /ˈfɔrɪdʒər/
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recolector
- Ironically, abundant fish sources may mean that some riverine Sepik groups are more successful foragers than their upland cousins.
- foragers and farmers
- Mikea foragers
- Indian foragers
We start out as hunter foragers, then we become agriculturalists.
- We start out as hunter foragers, then we become agriculturalists.
- So an Ant has some rule like I'm a forager and I'll go out on my next trip if I meet enough ants coming in with food.
Examples
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Soldiers guard the nest while foragers set off to find tender foliage.
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While foragers, such as you, just walk around and pick up sticks.
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Most human history involved foragers, and so they are particularly relevant.
Academic text (2003) -
And so in fact, in the typical forager hunter gatherer group, it was a very high degree of sharing and help.
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To cool the nest further, foragers collect water and distribute it among the workers.
Academic text (1990) -
We start out as hunter foragers, then we become agriculturalists.
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They move out and these foragers are responding to the scouts.
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The female lemur is a better jumper and more efficient forager than her male counterpart.
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Older foragers no longer produce jelly, but often beg for and receive small doses from younger nurse bees.
Academic text (2018) -
As a skilled forager, she knew how to find edible mushrooms in the forest.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Forager comes from forage, a word that first meant 'fodder' or food for animals and later came to mean 'search for food'. So a forager is a person or animal who goes out to look for food, often in the wild.