0 present participle of scrounge --
1 to get things, especially money or food, by asking for them instead of buying them or working for them: --
I remember factories being knocked down and then scrounging around for factory space.
That underclass is a separate class, different from us, by implication scrounging from us, and subverting our values.
They are just reaching a stage which is called scrounging or pinching, and that is the way to become a criminal.
Gurven's analysis cannot rule out any of the models (kin selection, reciprocal altruism, tolerated scrounging, costly signaling, or byproduct mutualism), and quantitative partitioning of relative importance is not feasible.
Gurven attempts to organize the data on human food transfers and relate them to four nonexclusive evolutionary models: kin selection, reciprocal altruism, tolerated scrounging, and costly signaling.
This article attempts to organize available crosscultural evidence pertaining to several contentious evolutionary models: kin selection, reciprocal altruism, tolerated scrounging, and costly signaling.
The data on tolerated scrounging are inadequate for a path analysis.
These instances of food transfer could also be described as tolerated scrounging.
