Sentences with phrase «animal catch its prey»

Not exact matches

The researchers tested what the webs could catch in the most direct way possible: by lobbing different prey animals at them from half a metre away.

Sight drives nearly every aspect of their lives, including catching prey and communicating with other animals.

Hydra is a genus of tiny freshwater animals that catch and sting prey using a ring of tentacles.

Arendt thinks predators were the first animals to evolve complex brains, to find and catch moving prey.

«The plant can judge, by simply counting the number of action potentials spreading over the trap, whether useless dead material has landed inside it or if useful animal prey has been caught,» says Sönke Scherzer, an electrophysiologist at the University of Würzburg in Germany, and one of the study's co-authors.

Animal - borne camera reveals that alligators may attempt to capture prey most often at night, even though the calculated probability of catching prey is highest in the morning, according to a study published in PLOS ONE on January 15, 2014 by James Nifong from the University of Florida and colleagues from other institutions.

The pharyngeal jaws allowed them, for example, to crush plants or hard - shelled animals, while the oral jaws were specialized exclusively for catching prey.

The author also describes how animals use senses as well as adaptations, such as camouflage and symbiosis, to catch prey and avoid predators.

He'll be less likely to get sick, run into the street, fall prey to a wild animal, or catch a wild animal himself.

Though we think of wild wolves as subsisting entirely on the flesh of the prey animals they manage to catch, in reality, both wild wolves and domesticated dogs are omnivores — they are capable of eating both animal and plant foods.

Perhaps more than any other animal on earth, the cat is built to hunt and catch prey.

Climbing also gave early cats a way keep the larger prey they had caught hidden from other animals who might try to steal it.

In the wild, cats hunt and catch smaller prey animals.

In the wild, cats drink very little water because they get the water they need from the small prey animals they catch.

Just as they enjoy the benefits from natural animal fat from prey on land, food caught in the water can also provide some great nutritional elements.

To be successful, the animal must use a combination of genetics and observation of other members of their species to learn successful strategies for finding, catching and killing of live prey.

However, if there is a significant risk to an animal's life — be it dog, wildlife, livestock, human — and your dog has a high prey drive, chasing and catching that prey is the ultimate reinforcement that will give him that neurochemical joy.

Never allow your Wire Fox Terrier to run off - lead, as he is likely to forget all training if he catches sight of a small animal he perceives as prey.

Dental implants have been placed in wild animals allowing them to catch prey and return to their natural environment.

Never allow your Smooth Fox Terrier to run off - lead, as he is likely to take off if he catches sight of a small animal he perceives as prey.

Remember, felines are prey animals who love to stalk and catch so add a feather, dangling toy or string as a reward for an app well - played.

(ref) If your cat goes outside unattended, whole prey animals that it catches also contain iodine.

Some cats that catch prey will bring their owners the dead — or sometimes still alive — animals in order to show off their prized catch for later consumption, as a teaching aid, or as a gift.