Sentences with phrase «caught by a predator»

Studies show that the animals caught by predators are generally weaker and more diseased than those killed by manmade sources.6, 7 One study found that «birds killed by cats had significantly lower mass, fat scores, and pectoral muscle mass scores» than birds of the same species killed by cars or windows.8 These studies indicate that cats are catching what some biologists refer to as the «doomed surplus» 9 — animals who would not have lived, and so whose death does not affect overall population levels.

It's a self defense method of playing dead, used sometimes when caught by a predator.

Not exact matches

One article that truly helped me understand how many predators process «getting caught» was a recent one by Boz Tchividjian.

In any case, we had this at dinnertime along with a delicious baked brie + chocolate popcorn for dessert... and then we rang in the new year by watching a couple of episodes of To Catch A Predator, which my friend recently started watching whilst on her OB / GYN rotation.

Later on, when the sea anemones grow big and become predators themselves, their venom adapts to their new lifestyle by producing a different kind of toxin, one best suited to catch small fish and shrimp.

These animals have declined as their habitat has been destroyed, they've been caught up in fishing gear, their nesting areas have been disturbed and raided for their eggs, they've ingested plastic pollution and they've been hunted by people and predators.

In any case, we had this at dinnertime along with a delicious baked brie + chocolate popcorn for dessert... and then we rang in the new year by watching a couple of episodes of To Catch A Predator, which my friend recently started watching whilst on her OB / GYN rotation.

After probably growing up living on not much with the animals I'm surprised he never caught any hideous diseases or got eaten by any predators.

Merely removing cats, as in catch - and - kill, creates an abrupt habitat void, soon filled by cats coming from other nearby habitats, rather than by native predators, who typically have less than half the fecundity of cats.

Most fish caught by fishermen on reefs need this important habitat to grow up in, safe from predators and with a good food supply.

The Riddler has also been hard at working creating «campaigns» which are a series of challenge rooms, mixing both combat and predator, where you have a variety of modifiers to choose from, with the catch being that every one of them must be used by time you finish the campaign.

Here's a fascinating «Your Dot» followup to my post on the 17 - foot egg - bearing female Burmese python that was caught, tracked and euthanized by federal biologists working to understand the impact of this introduced predator on the Everglades and Florida.

They use these methods to deal with predators that are bothering farmers, but The Animal Welfare Institute and WildEarth Guardians say ocelots are getting caught in the cross-fire, killed by methods that can't tell the difference between an ocelot and a fox.

A relative lack of tourism in northern Cyprus has been a boon to turtle populations, which are threatened by development and beach erosion, as well as predators, marine trash, and getting caught in fishing nets.

2) Question: I got busted by NBC's «To Catch A Predator.»