foraging

n. the process of searching for, locating, capturing, and processing food for ingestion or for provisioning young. For example, fruit-eating animals must locate trees containing fruit ripe enough to eat and often process the fruit by removing husks or seeds prior to ingestion. Optimal foraging theory provides a framework for predicting the costs and benefits of different decisions about where to forage and for how long.

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February 17th 2025

panacea

n. a solution or remedy for everything that is wrong with a given problem or that universally applies to a set of related problems.