collecting wild plants and hunting wild animals for subsistence.
The act of looking for prey and feeding.
A subsistence system based on the collection of wild foods, including any combination of hunting wild game, gathering wild plants, fishing, and shellfish collecting.
Foraging has the strict meaning of searching for food. However, it has acquired an important technical meaning within the science of behavioral ecology where it refers to predator-prey interactions (note that in ecology, prey can be plant as well as animals). It is also an important study in social anthropology and human behavioral ecology, particularly in relation to societies that follow, wholly or in part, the hunter-gatherer way of life.
