Sentences with phrase «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.

God has animals preying on each other, for food.

You said in regard to God has animals preying on each other, for food., «FWIW, the creation story suggests that was the way things were, and Revelation suggests that's the way things will be.

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.

Animals preying on undispersed seeds are typically small insects, such as flies, beetles, and moth larvae, with limited mobility.

While cats sometimes might be the top predators in their environments, some of the animals they prey on are also predators, like rats.

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!

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.»

Not exact matches

«The Red Triangle includes roughly 200 miles of coastline.But it's not the beachgoers and surfers that attract great whites to these waters.It's the rich population of other mammals like elephant seals, harbor seals, sea lions, and sea otters.Great whites prefer to prey on these animals instead of humans.

Besides, society already accepts men as lewd animals ready to pounce on innocent prey.

There would be a mass die off of animals once the ark landed because most of the animals feed on others, and with only two of which, the prey would be annihilated very quickly, and the predatory then would starve.

That did not happen: there is no geological record of a world - wide flood, there is not enough diversity to regenerate the population we currently, there is not enough water to cover the earth to the height of Everest, the logistics of retrieving and returning animals to the then - unknown Americas, Australia, etc. were staggeringly difficult, managing the animals on the Ark was impossible — a few humans keeping predators from their prey, cleaning the waste, etc., pretty much all life on earth would have been killed, etc. etc..

Shamans» paintings on cave walls, almost always depicting prey animals, simultaneously named an animal in their representations and summoned it to give its life for humans.

Perhaps, the hunter shoud be content with using a tranquilizer rifle to down the hunted animal, get their picture taken as having conquered their prey, let the animal recover and both go on their way.

Animals fear humans and prey on one another.

Animals that at any other time of year might stay away from each other, or even prey on one another, will live in relative peace and safety near the water hole.

He caused the animals to prey on one another.

On Thursday, March 29 drop by to see two live animal shows at 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. featuring beautiful birds of prey.

Democratic Assemblyman Matthew Titone says his bill would end what he calls a predatory practice that preys on people who can not always afford a companion animal.

While some of the captive seals seemed to prefer swallowing their prey whole, both the wild and captive animals relied heavily on their claws overall, the scientists found.

Lots of animals differ in the parts of the color spectrum that they see best because of how they are tuned to their environments — whether they live in the deep sea or in caves, whether they mostly go out in the day or at night, or whether they're trying to pick up ultraviolet patterns on flowers or on prey.

Cat Wars has a broader, more ecological focus, documenting the global impact of cats on wildlife, both by preying on animals and by transmitting diseases.

With an estimated 1 million animals killed every day on America's road network, the effect of this constant removal of predators and prey is felt over much wider areas.

Potential prey animals of the wolf feed then on vegetation that was previously contaminated with the parasites.

«Both malaria and Helicosporidium started out as alga and ended up as intracellular parasites preying on animals, but they have done it in very different ways,» says Keeling, director of the Centre for Microbial Diversity and Evolution at UBC and a Senior Fellow of Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

In 2007 researchers discovered structures on the animals» front claws that resemble hypodermic needles, fueling speculations that they might be injecting something into their prey.

Sallan and Coates determined that Fouldenia had massive tooth plates on its upper and lower jaws, suitable for preying on hard - shelled animals.

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So I wondered if some animals need to spend time and energy on voluntary exercise so that they are fit enough to out - run predators, win over mates or hunt down prey,» he explains.

They generally seem to choose prey on the basis of how dangerous it is perceived to be, the general size of the potential prey animal, etc..

Apart from feeding on domestic animals, vampire bats occasionally took blood from wild tapirs, so the method may be useful for determining the distribution of elusive mammal prey.

Most studies of animal warning colors focus on how well they deter potential predators, but far fewer have examined whether the same signals help their bearers avoid detection by parasites, prey, or competitors, the researchers say.

Gila monsters These nearly two - foot - long lizards use their poisonous bite to prey on small animals in the southwestern United States.

Buoyant gear may overwhelm animals» ability to descend to depths to forage on preferred prey.

(Landowners can still obtain permits to kill cougars that prey on farm animals.)

Bats and other animals that rely on sounds to detect prey in the dark move their ears much like humans use their eyes to track an object of interest, making constant adjustments to their ear positions.

In general, hyenas are large, strong, flesh - eating animals that hunt a wide range of prey but mostly feed on carrion (the kills of other predators).

«These impressions show the animals were able to grab their prey and hold on while biting at it.»

By analyzing collar data for captive pumas walking or running on a treadmill, pouncing on dead prey, and going through their daily routines in a fenced yard, the researchers learned how to use the collar to figure out an animal's activity as well as its location.

The bone fragment on the right, likely from a prey animal like reindeer, shows cut marks that may have come from a tool used to slaughter the animal.

Its peglike teeth suggest the animal fed on worms and other soft - bodied prey, Sues says.

Also, the data indicate that life would be tough on these animals if prey were scarce or inaccessible because of boundary fences that break up the landscape, forcing the cheetahs to spend a lot more time searching.

A closer look at the video footage revealed that the ant lions moves its mandibles at different speeds, depending on where the prey animal is in relation to its head.

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 squirrel, with its eyes on the sides of its head like all prey animals, sits on the air conditioner and stares at me — sideways with just one big eye, until I put out some peanuts.

Besides possibly leading to a substantial decline in scavengers that may depend on puma leftovers, one of the largest effects of losing pumas would likely be boom - and - bust population cycles in prey animals such as deer.

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But instead of traipsing into the woods to find animals that prey on lizards, he and his colleague turned to another kind of predator: graduate students.

Almost half a billion years ago, the largest animal on Earth was a 2 - meter - long, helmet - headed sea creature that fed on some of the ocean's tiniest prey.

Circular pupils are generally found on animals that chase down their prey, such as cheetahs, or on taller ambush predators like lions and tigers.