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NTR: active foraging #111

Closed diatomsRcool closed 5 years ago

diatomsRcool commented 5 years ago

For new term requests, please provide the following information:

Preferred term label

active foraging

Synonyms

Textual definition

heterotrophic process during which a living entity acquires food and energy by actively searching for food resources that put up little to no resistance to being consumed

Suggested parent term

heterotrophy

Attribution

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2908-3327

diatomsRcool commented 5 years ago

See https://github.com/EcologicalSemantics/ecocore/issues/93 for context

diatomsRcool commented 5 years ago

@jhammock @KatjaSchulz thoughts?

jhammock commented 5 years ago

I don't see the use of excluding motile prey, but here's the thought experiment: if active foraging is a sister to hunting, what is their parent?

KatjaSchulz commented 5 years ago

I would think active foraging would be a parent to hunting.

diatomsRcool commented 5 years ago

you know what. This belongs in the behavior ontology https://github.com/obo-behavior/behavior-ontology/issues/81

diatomsRcool commented 5 years ago

I'm closing this because its been added to NBO.