Sentences with phrase «animal prey»

"Animal prey" refers to animals that are hunted and eaten by other animals. Full definition
After all, wild wolves hunt animal prey and most of their natural diet consists of meat.
Wild wolves do hunt and eat animal prey, but they consume almost all parts of the animal, including its stomach contents.
The impala, gazelles and other animals they prey on are agile, and the final moments of a hunt are often played out with an intricate to - and - fro of footwork, rather than a flat - out race.
It was assumed that high animal diversity generates positive effects as the dominant consumption of animal prey lessens the pressure on plant biomass, or they are more exploitative on plants, since the numerous different animal species, due to their various preferences, consume more plant species.
Young Again CarnivoreRAW with calcium is designed to duplicate the nutritional profile of small animal prey.
You have suddenly become some other animals prey because you are physically exhausted).
PIRATE perch are unsmellable, thanks to a unique chemical camouflage that dupes many animals they prey on.
The Priests are predatory animals preying on the meek and trade their spiritual connection to fill their animal nature eyes with physical gold — just a shiny blinding metal.
They are most active from sunrise to sunset, they spend a large portion of their activity time foraging for animal prey, searching through leaves and along branches, and peering and reaching into holes and crevices in branches and tree trunks.
«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.
Without sea otters, the undersea animals they prey on would devour the kelp forests off the coast that provide cover and food for many other marine animals.»
Young Again CarnivoreRAW with calcium and phosphorus is designed to duplicate the nutritional profile of small animal prey.
Animals preying on undispersed seeds are typically small insects, such as flies, beetles, and moth larvae, with limited mobility.
God has animals preying on each other, for food.
Some see beauty and the amazing intricacy and interconnectedness of life, others see the cruelty of one animal preying on another.
This side argues that domestic cats are not efficient killers, and that since the animals preyed on are often underweight or sick and would die soon anyway, cats are sweeping up Darwinian surpluses that would otherwise have us knee - deep in goldcrests in a decade.
I collected blood samples from the hunters, from other people in their community, and from their animal prey.
The theory is that our ancestors would spend much of the day in hunt of their animal prey — eating fresh vegetables and fruits as they were available — and then feasting on their kill in the evening, eating enough to satisfy them until the next kill.
Wild dogs usually eat the stomach content and organ meat from the animals they prey upon.
This is a simple and understandable adaptation for a hunting animal like the cat — there is no need for them to have special enzymes or metabolic pathways to digest and convert nutrients in plants to what they need, when it is present already in the animals they prey on!
[FN34] To make matters worse, many of the animals preyed upon by cats are federal and state listed threatened and endangered species.
These animals prey mainly on black - tailed deer and Roosevelt elk, only taking smaller game, such as squirrels, rodents, and beaver, when larger prey are scarce.
Carnivorous plants actually capture small animal prey to gain many essential nutrients.
«The carnivorous plant Dionaea muscipula, also known as Venus flytrap, can count how often it has been touched by an insect visiting its capture organ in order to trap and consume the animal prey,» says Rainer Hedrich of Universität Würzburg in Germany.
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