Sentences with phrase «as apex predators»

As adults, they control the air space as the apex predators of invertebrates.

As apex predators they may be amplifying negative effects lower in the food chain; if tiny prey organisms are getting sickened and fish eat them, and the dolphins consume the fish, the bioaccumulation of toxins might be serious.

Taken together, these regulars form a neat ecosystem, with spiders and centipedes as apex predators, hunting smaller fry such as carpet beetles and other spiders.

Known for their killer instinct, sharks have always been feared and respected as the apex predator of the deep blue sea.

Shark Speed Known for their killer instinct, sharks have always been feared and respected as the apex predator of the deep blue sea.

Not exact matches

Following the reintroduction of wolves, each wolf was averaging 22 elk kills per year, far exceeded the 12 elk per wolf projection as the existing herds were not prepared for the «sudden appearance» of the century - old apex predator after decades of tranquility.

An important «apex predator» that should neither be hunted as an enemy nor treated as a pet.

In this sparse, sometimes snowy landscape, the lanky and ginger - colored wolves (Canis simensis) reign as the region's apex predators...

The polar bear, also known as the white bear, northern bear, sea bear, or nanuq in some Inuit languages, is a species of bear that is native to the Arctic and the apex predator within its range.

If two apex predators managed to find mutual benefit in a close relationship once, as early research held, or twice, as the newest analysis indicates, why not three or four or 10 times?

The earlier study also compared shark population numbers with other apex predators, such as polar bears and killer whales.

New remains plug a 20 - million - year gap in the fossil record and suggest T. rex evolved a big brain as the first step to becoming apex predator

This particular carcass had been left on a primary game trail as a grisly marker and warning to other coyotes that wolves rule this system — they are the apex predator.

Finds such as the newly discovered Birgeria species and the fossils of other vertebrates now show that so - called apex predators (animals at the very top of the food chain) already lived early after the mass extinction.

Dragonflies spend their larval phase in water, after which they control the air space as the flying apex predators of invertebrates.

«This adaptation may have played an important role in the initial radiation and subsequent success of theropods as terrestrial apex predators.»

Tasmania might be able to welcome back its apex predator, a marsupial wolf known as the Tasmanian tiger — hunted to extinction in the 1930s.

Taking its place at the top of the food - chain as one of the toughest early - game encounters in Monster Hunter World, Anjanath are the Ancient Forest's apex predator.

The M2 may be the apex predator in the 2 - series line (and some argue it's the best driving car BMW makes at the moment), but the M235i Convertible (in xDrive guise or not) is as enjoyable a performance car as I've driven in years.

Interacting with large cats is often not possible, as they are apex predators.

You may even have to enter the water and descend among these apex predators as they patrol they surface.

The stronger presence of this species, bound to become a new apex predator of arctic seas, will likely affect populations of endemic arctic marine mammals such as the narwhal, bowhead, and beluga whales.

From herbivores to apex predators, such as the big schools of charismatic hammerheads and scores of moray eels, the entire ecosystem stood out as a refuge from the pervasive negative news about coral reef bleaching in the Galápagos.

Long vilified as ruthless «man eaters,» sharks have, in truth, never held a candle to nature's real apex predators: us.