Foraging Strategies
The term "forage" means to wander in search of food. Every animal has a particular method of locating food, whether they smell it, find it by sight, or detect it by c...
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Foraging
Foraging, the search for food, is a fundamental part of behavior. All animals, from the simplest invertebrates to primates, have to take in food. Because appropriate food may be more abundant...
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Motorists might save a few cents a gallon filling their tanks with ethanol, but they could soon be paying more for a burger and a milkshake as a result.Demand for corn to make ethanol is soaring an...
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Federal marine mammal experts in Alaska studying the effects of global warming on walrus, polar bears and ice seals warn there are limit to the protections they can provide.They can restrict hunter...
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Mushroom fanatics brave poisoning, death and the long arm of the law to gather gourmet fungi that thrive in the damp coastal forests of Northern California.The Santa Cruz Mountains, west of Silicon...
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Hunters in India's remote northeast are tracking a rogue elephant blamed for 14 deaths in the region and named after Osama bin Laden by fearful villagers.The order came after the bull dubbed Laden,...
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Two British tourists died when an elephant charged them in western Zimbabwe, the British embassy in Harare said Monday. A third injured Briton was hospitalized with serious injuries.The identities ...
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The U.S. Forest Service said Thursday it was pulling its plan to sell timber in a national forest in Kentucky and would consider environmental groups' objections if the project is taken up in the f...
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