Sentences with phrase «catch prey in»

That's why we have organs like heart and lung in our food because that is what a dog or cat eats when they catch their prey in the wild.

Bats rely on impressively complex flight maneuvers to catch prey in mid-air, and understanding how they manage those feats could lead to improvements in man - made aircraft.

Bats are famed for using high - pitched squeaks to catch prey in total darkness.

For sure, the three LPGA stars were among the record seven million Woods fans who watched the Big Cat stalk and nearly catch his prey in Sunday's Valspar Championship finale.

That's why we have organs like heart and lung in our food because that is what a dog or cat eats when it catches its prey in the wild.

Most cats will eat their main meals at dawn and dusk, when they would normally be hunting and catching prey in the wild, so those are often the best times to feed them.

Polar bears succeed in catching their prey in only 2 percent of their attempts, the National Zoo says.

Not exact matches

The ruthless illogic of his unintentional negation of time really catches up with Altizer in the culminating statement he offers in support of his claim that the Nietzsche he follows does not fall prey to Eliade's regression.

«In spite of this primitivism, jellies are as effective as fishes in catching prey and in transforming the energy acquired [into] body growth and reproduction.&raquIn spite of this primitivism, jellies are as effective as fishes in catching prey and in transforming the energy acquired [into] body growth and reproduction.&raquin catching prey and in transforming the energy acquired [into] body growth and reproduction.&raquin transforming the energy acquired [into] body growth and reproduction.»

Chris Anderson and Stephen Deban of the University of South Florida in Tampa filmed veiled chameleons (Chamaeleo calyptratus, pictured) catching prey at different temperatures.

The researchers tested what the webs could catch in the most direct way possible: by lobbing different prey animals at them from half a metre away.

«So while a cold chameleon can catch prey just as fast as a warm one, it takes a lot longer to deliver this meal to the mouth,» says Ulrike Müller of California State University in Fresno.

Last year I was able to show experimentally, that horned frogs can produce extremely strong adhesive strength with their tongues, which they also need in order to catch larger prey.

He suggests the tentacles may enable snakes to catch prey at night or in murky waters (The Journal of Experimental Biology, DOI: 10.1242 / jeb.039685).

Some researchers think the appendage figures in reproduction; others believe it's for catching prey.

The salamander reels in its tongue once the prey is caught.

Editor's note: This story was updated March 7, 2018, to clarify that researchers predict that goatfish will catch more prey in a group hunt than alone, but the idea has not been shown yet.

While in the larvae stage, the Nematostella fall prey to larger fish but once mature, they become predators themselves, catching shrimp and small fish with their venomous tentacles.

Only 10 percent caught and ate their prey, compared with 60 percent of snails living in water with current CO2 levels, researchers report February 1 in Biology Letters.

Silk strands in a spider's web, Fossey says, elongate when an insect is caught, turning the prey's momentum into heat.

Those sharks that do not become successful in learning how to catch prey quickly may starve as a result, which would partially explain the early migration of this juvenile female to off - shore waters for richer food.

Fishermen still make offerings at the volcano for a good catch and hunters still fan across its forested skirt in search of prey.

In addition to red squirrels, cameras also caught a hawk, a Blue Jay, and even a white - tailed deer preying on Rusty Blackbird nests.

Humpbacks tilt their uniquely scalloped pectoral flippers aggressively for extra lift in the water, turning their immense bodies swiftly to catch fast, elusive prey.

Even though no footage shows the squid actually catching a meal, the squirming tentacle tips could attract prey in several ways, the researchers suggest today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Motions of the clubbed tips could stimulate bioluminescence in microorganisms or small creatures swimming nearby, which could in turn entice larger prey suitable for the squid.

The whales don't perform bottom side - rolls in another area of the Gulf of Maine where the dominant humpback prey is herring, further suggesting that the late - night acrobatics are for catching sand lance.

«The plant can judge, by simply counting the number of action potentials spreading over the trap, whether useless dead material has landed inside it or if useful animal prey has been caught,» says Sönke Scherzer, an electrophysiologist at the University of Würzburg in Germany, and one of the study's co-authors.

To add to its mystery P. otwayensis weaves highly stereotyped ladder - shaped webs, where they stand facing down after sunset, waiting for preys which will be caught by using the ladder as a trap — a behavior which was already described in detail by now retired arachnologist Mike Gray (Australian Museum) for the only known other species of this genus, P. carraensis.

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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.

A snake has been caught on film pushing grass out of the way near a ground squirrel burrow as if in preparation for an attack on its prey

But surprised scientists have now caught blue whales in the act of making full 360 ° rolls at high speed as they close in on their prey.

Not only do they get snagged on hooks and tangled in nets, but chronic overfishing can deprive the birds of their prey — the same small fish that boats are catching.

As the timing of our seasons continues to change, the hares are likely to be caught out in the wrong color coats for longer and longer, making them easy to spot — and easy prey.

A fossil skull belonging to a whale that could both filter feed and catch large prey reveals the first step in this process.

If this turns out to be the case, we could potentially catch a star in the act of preying on a planet and learn about how the eventual death of our solar system may play out.

This concoction electrically charges the web and helps spiders catch their prey, according to a study in Naturwissenschaften.

As the most intensely persecuted bird of prey in the UK, Hen Harriers are under particular threat from being caught up in the crossfire of grouse hunts in upland moors where they feed on red grouse.

The fossil beetle, dubbed Protoclaviger, is a missing link; it looks like its modern relatives, except that the head still has reduced mouthparts reminiscent of a nonparasitic existence when the mouthparts were used to catch prey, and abdomen is still segmented as in most insects, they report online today in Current Biology.

The fact that Neanderthals — typically associated with hunting large prey over short distances in woodland settings — were seemingly unable to catch and kill such creatures is compounded by rapid changes in the environment.

Now, if local people are hunting the prey and that's driving the tigers to extinction, catching a big trader in China is not going to help that problem.

«See no prey, hear no prey, smell no prey: yet it finds prey with great efficiency,» Dawkins wrote with appreciative relish, «catching half its own weight in a day.»

Predator - induced defenses in offspring of laboratory and wild - caught snails: prey history impacts prey response.

That could include some bizarre adaptations, including «sponges that are sticky and catch prey instead of filtering water; small bivalves / clams having changed to suck in tiny shrimps instead of filtering; polychaete worms feeding on others and detritus - eating sea cucumbers.»

Dominika is pressed into service to approach and weaken an American agent whose contact with a mole inside the Russian intelligence services has made her uncle's life difficult, but as one might expect in a film like this, she catches feelings for her prey, played with icy determination by Joel Edgerton, and things get complicated quickly.

Verger forces Lecter out of retirement in hopes of catching his prey, but learns one really should be careful of what one wishes for lest he get it.

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Because it caught rats in its early years, it has an active prey drive.

Though we think of wild wolves as subsisting entirely on the flesh of the prey animals they manage to catch, in reality, both wild wolves and domesticated dogs are omnivores — they are capable of eating both animal and plant foods.

When cats catch mice at night, their whiskers help guide them as they subdue their prey and move in to deliver the killing neck bite.