Sentences with phrase «by ambushing prey»

Earn the greatest honour by ambushing prey up - close and butchering them for a gory trophy kill.
Earn the greatest honor by ambushing prey up - close, before butchering them for a gory trophy kill.
«Puff adders hunt by ambushing their prey, and can lie motionless for weeks at a single location waiting for prey to pass.

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The slim, vertical pupil probably helps ambush hunters stalk prey at night by making objects at a distance from the snake's hideout appear sharper, says Brischoux.
«Puff adders, the ultimate ambush predator: One of Africa's most venomous and abundant snake species hides from predator and prey by camouflaging smell.»
By contrast, saber - toothed cats (Smilodon fatalis), a species without close modern descendants, are thought to have ambushed large prey using powerful back and forelimb muscles to pull down and position the animals for killing bites.
Among the recent titles on the topic (both reviewed elsewhere in this issue) are Dorothy Allred Solomon's Predators, Prey, and Other Kinfolk, an account of growing up in a polygamous Mormon family during the 1950s and»60s, and Sally Denton's American Massacre, the story of the 1857 ambush of a wagon train at Mountain Meadows, Utah, a slaughter apparently ordered by Mormon chieftain Brigham Young.
By contrast, sand boas» strategy is to hide buried on the sand and ambush passing prey.
To put a stop to the invasion, your Swarmers must plan attacks carefully, emerging from vents and lockers to take the human prey by surprise, and ambush multiple enemies at once to remain undetected.
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