Sentences with phrase «catching prey»

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

It is noteworthy for its extraordinary diving ability and skill at catching prey underwater.

Other birds, such as sandpipers, egrets, and herons utilize tidal patterns, venturing out to rocks during low tide in hopes of catching prey.

Declawed cats are not as effective at catching prey as cats with claws but declawing does not prevent effective hunting.

The body postures seen during play aggression resemble the postures a cat would normally show when searching for or catching prey.

By the time the kitten is about six months previous, the deciduous tooth can have fallen out and been replaced by 30 everlasting teeth — tailored by Mother Nature for catching prey, ripping it to pieces and chewing it up.

However, if there is a significant risk to an animal's life — be it dog, wildlife, livestock, human — and your dog has a high prey drive, chasing and catching that prey is the ultimate reinforcement that will give him that neurochemical joy.

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.

Although indoor cats» survival doesn't depend on catching prey or avoiding predators, they never lose these instincts.

Defending themselves is one, catching prey is another.

Body postures of play aggression are the behaviors a cat shows when searching for and catching prey.

The front legs of a healthy cat are used for balance, running, climbing, and catching prey.

Cats are hunters and thrive on catching prey.

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.

After all, what would be the purpose of catching a prey without the ability of taking it back to homestead?

The longnose gar is an elongated fish with a long, thin snout full of needle - like teeth perfectly suited for catching prey.

On average, the researchers reckon both fish were five times more successful at catching prey together than separately.

They have large nematocysts, which Leander describes as «little harpoons,» for catching prey.

The pharyngeal jaws allowed them, for example, to crush plants or hard - shelled animals, while the oral jaws were specialized exclusively for catching prey.

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.

And the cheetahs are successful catching prey about half the time.

Sight drives nearly every aspect of their lives, including catching prey and communicating with other animals.

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

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

«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.»

Catching prey underwater and then shredding it at the surface was probably a smaller behavioral leap from full - on land feeding than other aquatic hunting strategies.

For immediacy doubtless does not know; but never does reflection catch its prey so surely as when it makes its snare out of nothing, and never is reflection so thoroughly itself as when it is... nothing.

It is meant to catch his prey: the spider fattens himself on flies, and the Pharisee has his reward.

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.

Predators adapt to catch their prey, and the hunted adapt to ways to avoid being eaten.

This bat species catches its prey by performing a midair somersault and closing its wings and tail around an insect it plans to eat.

Up - close observations revealed seals caught prey underwater, but ripped it apart at the surface.

«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.

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).

The mammoth cephalopod uses it's beak (inset, left) and swiveling hooks (inset, right) to catch its prey.

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.

To the scientists, these intersecting trails show how the predators caught their prey.

When the labyrinth spider senses vibrations, it rushes out to catch prey and then retreats into its homespun tunnel.

It appears to be related to plants from the Roridulaceae family, which catch their prey using long, sticky hairs.

For instance, a snake has venom, but it also can make use of its speed and jaws to catch prey.

The individual spiders are only the size of a pencil eraser, but they form organized groups that can catch prey ranging from fruit flies to small vertebrates.

The tagged minkes also gulped down a remarkable number of mouthfuls of krill per dive compared with other baleen whales, which all catch prey using a behavior known as lunge feeding.

Unlike the lantern - mouth angler, the longbarb scaly dragonfish, Macrostomias longibarbatus, catches its prey with a light - producing bulb at the end of a long, whip - like chin barbel.

Carolin Haug, LMU Munich, said: «T. brandonensis was probably an actively hunting predator, which caught the prey with its front claws and crushed it into smaller pieces with the protrusions nearer its mouthparts.»

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

Orb - weaver spiders build webs to catch prey.

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

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 genus Ctenus belongs to the so - called wandering spiders, which roam along the jungle floor at night and catch their prey without a web.

As a humpback lowers its bottom jaw to catch prey, a throat pouch under its jaw fills like a parachute.