Sentences with phrase «capture of prey»

The width of the eyes and a high concentration of low light pigments suggest sight plays an important role in the capture of prey.

Successful capture of prey by predators was the same regardless of whether the pairs had been exposed to ambient control conditions, the addition of either playback of boat noise, elevated CO2 (925 µatm) or both stressors simultaneously.

Roughly one - quarter of 367 hunts recorded in Botswana ended in capture of prey — usually impala, although one male cheetah, named Qamar, frequently hunted warthog in thicker vegetation.

Not exact matches

Each one contains hundreds of stinging cells, used for capturing and holding on to prey.

At Wake Forest, he used ultrasonic acoustics and the first generation of high - speed video cameras to capture bats hunting their moth prey in the laboratory.

Insect - eating bats use echolocation, a form of sonar, to identify and capture their prey.

According to Buehler, spider webs employ a limited amount of material to capture prey of different sizes.

The diversification of these toxins correlates directly with their functional importance in prey capture, for example the most pathogenic king cobra toxin family have undergone massive expansion, while, in contrast, venom proteins with less important functions do not participate in the evolutionary arms race occurring between snakes and their prey.

King hypothesizes that proteins that the single - celled ancestors of animals used to interact with the extracellular environment — to capture bacterial prey by binding to their cell surface and to detect chemical signals — were later repurposed to enable cells to stick to and talk to each other.

Stoecker says that there has been circumstantial evidence that dinoflagellates use their toxins to capture prey, but notes that Sheng's work is «pretty cool» because of the detailed visualizations and quantitative data.

From ferocious birds of prey to shy songbirds, Zuckerman has captured our avian neighbors in fascinating new ways.

«It's a very deliberate and selective form of prey capture.»

In a first, researchers in Japan have captured the brain activity of a living animal as it pursues its prey.

The exact function of the third eyelid in cats is not completely known but it is believed to help protect a very large cornea from injury as cats move through tall grass or capture prey.

«The inner ear facilitates the cheetah's remarkable ability to maintain visual and postural stability while running and capturing prey at speeds of up to 65 miles per hour.

Some tarantulas succeed in occasionally capturing small birds, small mammals such as mice, and even small fish, but their ordinary prey consists of insects such as crickets (for ground dwellers) and moths (for arboreal species).

Second, their diet consists largely of flying insects that are captured in an unusual way; they use their white tail spots and tail - flicking behavior to flush prey hidden in vegetation.

«Once captured, prey was likely sucked deeper into the mouth for swallowing — a technique which, ultimately, may have given rise to baleen and filter feeding in the modern Mysticeti suborder of whales,» Dr Marx says.

Kubodera's videos, which captured 14 attack behaviors, showed that as a squid approached, it sometimes emitted a short flash from photophores (light - producing organs) on the tips of its arms, perhaps in an effort to blind its prey or to illuminate it for easier capture.

Orb weavers have seven types of silk glands for making webs and egg cases and capturing prey.

Another group, Liphistiidae, consists of 97 species, many of which also build trap - doors to capture prey.

This drone's - eye view captures two humpback whales blowing a net of bubbles around their prey.

Alligators most often attempted to capture prey during the night, but the researchers» calculated probability of successful capture was highest in the morning and sequentially lower during day, evening, and night, respectively.

Their abilities allow ant lions to capture a wide range of prey, even with their passive sit - and - wait approach.

Observing the behaviors of dangerous and cryptic predators like alligators is no easy task, so scientists used animal - borne cameras to monitor alligators capturing prey and their other activities.

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.

How does the seahorse, one of the slowest swimming fish in the sea, manage to capture its nimbler prey?

Study leader, Jenny Read, Professor of Vision Science said: «Despite their minute brains, mantises are sophisticated visual hunters which can capture prey with terrifying efficiency.

Large carnivores may feel this balance more acutely because of the large amounts of energy needed to capture and subdue their prey.

Stella Maris could, for example, monitor the habits of seabirds as they fly, then plunge into water and capture prey.

That's an entirely new way of capturing prey, the scientists report this month in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. And perhaps fodder for an upcoming superhero movie.

«With a refined and tenacious tactic of predation, the European squid (Loligo vulgaris) has captured a bream (Sparus aurata) launching its tentacles and applying a lethal bite in the prey column.

This sticky spit helps the lizards capture prey weighing up to 30 % of each reptile's body weight with solely their tongues.

The research, published online before print in Genome Research, provides the most detailed view so far of the molecular action during prey capture.

Ensuring the viability of the landscape for eagles to hunt and capture prey is an area of particular interest to Boal.

(b) Constant wetting increased the number of flying prey captured.

The images show two species of cone snail, Conus geographus (left) and Conus tulipa (right) attempting to capture their fish prey.

Our group is helping Rafael Yuste's lab to pioneer the use of Hydra vulgaris, a small, freshwater polyp that attaches itself to underwater surfaces in lakes, rivers and ponds and uses its tentacles to capture prey, as a model organism for studying neural function.

After a Venus flytrap captures an insect inside the «trap» at the end of a stem, the struggle of its prey switches on the plant's digestion.

Their findings show that the falcons are able to maximize their chance of capturing agile prey because the higher speeds allowed them to have better maneuvering.

It is this glue that allows the chameleon to capture prey weighing up to 30 percent of their own body weight and to drag the heavy prey into their mouths at great speeds.

For example, in a predator - prey system, the predator has to first find, then capture, and finally subdue its victims, and a victim can deploy defensive traits at each stage of the attack.»

Terrestrial predators can modulate the energy used for prey capture to maximize efficiency, but diving animals face the conflicting metabolic demands of energy intake and the minimization of oxygen depletion during a breath hold.

These tentacle tubes are multifunctional structures that serve as both appendages for prey capture and extensions of the gastrovascular system.

Nephila clavipes spiders (Araneae: Nephilidae) keep track of captured prey counts: Testing for a sense of numerosity in an orb - weaver.

Over these hundreds of thousands of years our Big Game Hunting, small prey capturing, scavenging, foraging, gathering, opportunistic ancestors accumulated experience and wisdom about nourishing themselves.

The big bad at the center of John Krasinski's film, while visually reminiscent of what we've come to recognize as the prototypical alien — with modifications, including a head that seemingly functions like a giant ear — is a species of flesh - eating hellion that happens to be blind, and thus its potential prey can successfully evade capture by being silent at all times.

While 2008's «The Strangers» evoked a sense of dread and fear that made it feel as though this could happen to anyone anywhere, «The Strangers: Prey at Night» felt much more extravagant and didn't really capture the dread of the original.

Capturing your prey in Monster Hunter World requires you to use tranq bombs, and other paralysing tools, but in order to craft these, you're going to need a lot of parashroom.

Through the lens of cinematographer Charlotte Bruus Christensen (The Hunt), every inch of their Midwest farm is captured with a honey - tinged sadness, painting portraits of deadly American badlands - cornfields and forests hiding preying - mantis - looking mutants, who hunt solely via sound.