Sentences with phrase «consume large prey»

It is a common misconception that snakes actually dislocate their lower jaw to consume large prey.

In the wild, these four - legged carnivores wander in solitude across islands in Indonesia, consuming large prey like deer and water buffalo.

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However, where the traditional model made a strict separation between those that photosynthesize and those that don't, the mixotrophic model blurred those lines, with some smaller organisms consuming prey and some larger ones being able to photosynthesize.

While estimates of the amount of small mammals snow leopards consume may have been overstated, the importance of large ungulate populations to the snow leopard's diets may have been understated, as this study suggests stable snow leopard populations are possibly more reliant upon large ungulate prey than previously understood.

As a result of non-target species possibly being included in past research studies, it has been thought that snow leopards — who lack an abundance of natural prey — consume great numbers of small mammals such as marmots, hares and pika, as well as wild ungulates, which are larger hooved animals such as ibex.

These species facilitate the transfer of energy to higher trophic levels by consuming very small prey and then being eaten by larger, predatory fish and other marine animals.

In the wild, dogs and cats consume small prey whole (such as moles, voles and mice), but eat selectively from larger prey, sometimes leaving the stomach and entrails behind.