Sentences with phrase «between predators»

The film has some dark moments, especially when referring to the delicate relationship between predators and prey in this imaginary anthropomorphic universe.

Connections between predators and prey — often described as a food web — become destabilized.

«I think there's good evidence in nature that there is an arms race going on that generally exists between predators and prey,» says Carroll.

Estimating killer whale diet composition helps scientists understand interactions between predators and prey, but observing their diet directly is difficult.

We always held the number of species constant, but made changes to the roles each animal played as well as the links between predators and their prey.»

To test this hypothesis, the possible contribution of marine fish in the diet of these carnivores was evaluated using carbon, nitrogen and sulphur isotopes in faunal bone collagen, comparing these isotopic signatures between predators and their potential prey.

Most research on color and behavior in toxic amphibians has focused on interactions between individuals of the same species or between predators and prey.

The researchers found that ocean warming would be an overwhelming stressor that made food webs less efficient, neutralised the «fertilising» effect of elevated carbon dioxide and threw the fragile relationship between predators and prey off balance.

Michael Caldwell at Boston University and colleagues wanted to know how they distinguished between predators and false alarms like torrential rain.

The way different neural networks compete for dominance echoes the battle for survival between predators and prey — the result may be your wandering mind

The models included interactions and competition between predators as well as the influence of climate on vegetation and prey populations.

Dr Booth said studying the relationships between predators and prey, and the interactions between different predators that hunt the same prey, were important in ecological research.

This balance between predators and their prey is essential to a healthy ecosystem.

Here the truce will hold even among the animals, between predators and prey.

There is no exchange between predator and host because there is no coitus or activity where the virus can transfer.

It shows, he adds, that interactions between predator and prey can affect the brain size.

Rochet has run theoretical models on the effects of fishing practices and has indeed found that selective fishing can negatively impact biodiversity and create ripples in the food web as the balance between predator and prey is upset.

In all systems, whether pertaining to insects or mammals, they found a strong positive correlation between predator removal, plant community simplification, and reduced energy flow, which goes back to Paine's dictum about being able to change the world by removing one species.

We used a parametric regression between predator distance and BOLD signal, excluding the period in which the shock was administered.

Biologists have proposed a number of ways that this uneasy partnership between predator and potential prey could remain happy for both parties.

If the impact differs between predator and.

The film, directed by Iron Man 3 «s Shane Black (who also starred in the original Predator alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger as marine Hawkins), is set between Predator 2 and 2010's Predators.

Through her manipulation of these found images, Simmons works to construct a new narrative based on the presence of gain that operates within the shared experiences of desire and fear and between predator and prey.

In a series of manipulated found animal imagery Simmons unearths the relationship between predator and prey.

Fine also examines symbiotic relationships and the balance between predator and prey.

With the nine oil paintings and three works on paper that comprise the exhibition, Miller continues to explore the narrative potential of the animal world by revisiting many of the themes that she has surveyed in her work for the past thirty years, including the relationship between predator and prey, the effect of changing habitats upon both flora and fauna, the folly of our human sense of control over nature, and the passage of time.

Moreover, ecologists are finding that communities of species do not migrate together in response to warming, meaning the delicate balances between predator and prey stand to be substantially disrupted by global warming.

Not exact matches

One exception is its efforts to spot suspicious conversations between children and adult sexual predators.

Attenborough aims to persuade first through the detail and intimacy of his account of insect life: the female bumble bee's patient construction of the chamber in which she lays her eggs; the cooperative relationship between African acacias and the ants that make «mansions» in the «bloated and hollow» bases of the tree's protective spines (and sting the muzzles of grazing predators, driving them away); the cunning design of the mole cricket's burrow, which amplifies the male's mating song so that, «on a windless night, he can be heard from nearly half a mile away.»

I'm starting to wonder if the only difference between the U.S. Government and Al Qaeda is that Al Qaeda at least had the fiscal responsibility to use inexpensive boxcutters instead of printing billions of dollars and borrowing trillions more to buy guided missiles and Predator drones.

In an eco-system, many of the relations between species are those of predator and prey.

In between these events, we managed to do touristy things like buy superb Aboriginal art in shops at The Rocks, stroll through the enormous — and beautiful — Botanical Gardens, visit the Taronga Zoo, tour the famous Sydney Opera House, and shudder when totally surrounded by those Great Barrier Reef predators in the shark tunnel at the aquarium.

«Colony - enriched is a real blend between giving the hens the ability to exhibit their natural behavior and relieving aggression, but also keeping them safe from themselves, from predators and keeping them disease - free,» Vice President of Operations Rob Knecht says.

Our experts are here to both explain what social media sites your child may be using and to help you find a balance between giving your teen freedom and protecting him or her from cyberbullying and online predators.

Rare Illinois Turtles Making Comeback With Help From Chicago Museum - DNAinfo.com Chicago - March 10, 2016 Twenty years of collaborative efforts between several wildlife organizations are starting to pay off for an endangered turtle hunted by poachers, run over by cars and eaten by a multitude of predators.

But it is not the job of governments to pick and choose between «predators» and «responsible» capitalists.

«The proposals for the future of snaring represent the best possible balance between retaining an essential tool in predator management, which benefits many species of wildlife, whilst ensuring that the use of snare is conducted to the highest possible standards.»

It was in his party conference speech last autumn that Mr Miliband first divided capitalism between good «producers» who ought to be encouraged and bad «predators» who had to be curbed.

In his speech to Labour Party conference the following year, Mr Miliband said that although he was pro-business, there was a distinction between «producers» and «predators».

That's the main finding of a study appearing May 23 in Nature Communications that analyzed the relationship between top predators on three different continents and the next - in - line predators they eat and compete with.

Once within the space between the outer and inner membranes, the predator secretes enzymes — as damaging as the movie aliens» acid spit — that chew its prey's nutrients and DNA into bite - sized pieces.

Like the colossal squid, the Antarctic toothfish is a predator that usually lives in eternal darkness, somewhere between 1 and 2 kilometres below the ocean surface.

He is referring to a famous painting by Charles Knight that seems to capture in midaction a fight between two of these creatures, small but terrifying predators with sicklelike claws.

The researchers emphasized the similarities between their findings and research on roles of small predator communities that help control crop pests.

«Conflict between farmers and livestock predators.»

Greater acidity also «impairs their ability to discriminate between the smell of kin and not, and of predators and not,» according Philip Munday, a professor and research fellow at the Coral Reef Studies center at James Cook University in Australia, who conducted the experiments and presented results at a symposium here this week called The Ocean in a High - CO2 World.

Dr. Nell added, «Our study is the first to demonstrate a mutually beneficial relationship between nesting birds and a crocodilian: nesting wading birds provide nutrition for alligators that, by their mere presence, create predator - free space for birds.

For their study, the researchers looked at three sets of fossils (now housed in museums in Denmark, England, and Texas) of widely disparate creatures from different eras: a leatherback turtle that lived about 55 million years ago, a large predator called a mosasaur that lived about 86 million years ago, and an ichthyosaur that swam the seas between 190 million and 196 million years ago.

Richard Coss, a psychology professor and expert on the evolution of predator — prey relationships at the University of California, Davis, studied the behavior of 185 people who were attacked by mountain lions (aka pumas or cougars) between 1890 and 2000 in the U.S. and Canada.

Biologists and conservationists aim to restore habitat while brokering a peace between people and predators