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wild feeding

wild feeding is the present participle and gerund of wild feed.

Meaning of wild feed

Verb

wild feed (third-person singular simple present wild feeds, present participle wild feeding, simple past and past participle wild fed)

  1. To forage for food in the wild; to eat from naturally occurring sources rather than domestically-produced food.
    • Hence, although an animal is able to maximize its energy gain from provisioning to an extent impossible in wild feeding, when energy returns decrease in relation to greater social stress it may no longer be profitable for an animal to stay around the provisioning site.2012, H.O. Box, Primate Responses to Environmental Change, →ISBN, page 154

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What is wild feeding the present participle and gerund of?
Wild feeding is the present participle and gerund of wild feed.

Words near wild feeding in the dictionary

  1. wild eggplants
  2. wild endive
  3. wild endives
  4. wild fed
  5. wild feed
  6. wild feeding
  7. wild feeds
  8. Wild Fields
  9. wild flax
  10. wild flaxes
  11. wild flower

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