Sentences with phrase «eating prey»

Cats» kidneys are highly efficient and adapted to life in the desert, where they would get most or all of their water from eating their prey.

One theory suggests that dogs and cats used to get greens in the wild when hunting smaller grass - eating prey, but lack this green nutrition in domesticated diets.

Remember that domestic cats are by nature hunters, your cat's diarrhea may have been brought about by it eating prey.

This dog had a strong chase instinct and I think she had a history of eating prey.

In the process of eating prey in the wild, cats devoured fur, hair and tough elastic tissue which had a natural brushing effect on their teeth.

Because cats are obligate carnivores and naturally consume diets based on eating prey, their bodies just aren't that good at metabolizing carbohydrates.

Cats and dogs can also become infected by licking and / or eating grass and dirt and other soiled items that contain infective eggs or by eating prey animals that have already been infected.

Taenia species - These are tapeworms that are acquired by eating prey or waste containing the infective larval stage.

Eating a prey item that is too large can also prove fatal.

Cats get infected by hunting and eating prey, eating raw food diets, or by inadvertently licking oocysts during grooming.

Some experts suggest that animals used to get green nutrition from their grass - eating prey, but greens are rarely found in a domestic pet's commercially produced food.

Just my opinion, but it's equivalent to saying «my dog or cat does not do well eating prey.»

Plant turned preexisting defenses against insect pests into weapons for catching and eating prey

However, the diet of dragonflies has never been resolved comprehensively as it is difficult to observe them catching or eating their prey.

You may have heard of a landscape of fear — how a predator can influence an ecosystem not just by eating its prey, but also by introducing fear into the system, changing the behavior of many organisms.

Predators like wolves affect their ecosystems by eating their prey.

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.

I have never seen the BoA analogy tied to the constricting snake that kills and eats its prey.

In the wild, cats eat prey like mice, which are made of about 70 percent water, says Donna Solomon, D.V.M.. Most canned foods contain at least 75 percent water, while dry foods contain only about 10 percent.

Canines eat prey on the spot but may carry small animals home when they have puppies to be fed.

If your dog eats prey such as rodents or rabbits, reinfection can occur with passage of tapeworm segments in 6 - 8 weeks.

Their teeth are designed to let them eat the prey whole, devouring bones, hair, and feathers that help to keep their teeth clean.

Wild animals have been trained by their parents to then eat their prey, which is why most dogs don't eat prey that they have captured.

Since we don't teach our dogs to hunt and eat meat, they only learn the chase, and sometimes the killing part, but don't usually eat the prey.

An interesting aside is that, while cats in the wild only eat prey, they get their grains and vegetables by eating the contents of their prey's stomach.

She will eat the prey in front of the kittens - this is food, and this is how you eat it.

However, if your cat continues to hunt and eat prey, reinfection can occur with passage of tapeworm segments in 6 - 8 weeks.

Sometimes they eat their prey while other times they leave it as a «gift» for you.

Wild canines, such as wolves, have these same instincts only the results are fatal because they are herding in order to kill and eat their prey in the end.

Kittens, like many predatory animals, have to be taught to hunt, kill and eat their prey.

Most times the diarrhea will be mild and temporary, perhaps your cat ate something she shouldn't, like food meant for humans, or she killed and ate some prey that upset her stomach.

In the wild, cats will catch and eat their prey, which means they are eating raw meat.

The only time you should even consider feeding your snake live prey would be if you know that your snake is hungry and will immediately kill and eat the prey, and you will watch the snake do this safely.

ate prey drive, which makes life challenging for our cats so we have to keep them separated when we are not home.

Toxoplasmosis is caused by the Toxoplasma gondii parasite that can infect your cat if she or he eats prey that is contaminated with the parasite, or comes into contact with infected earth as toxoplasmosis parasites live in the soil.

However, dogs and cats evolved to eat prey.

Cats that capture and eat their prey often ingest grass from the stomach and intestines of the animal they are feeding upon.

Some of them eat their prey and some of them do it just for the pure fun of hunting.

This makes perfect sense when we consider that our dogs» and cats» ancestors — and their current cousins — are designed to eat prey animals that are just that: high in protein, relatively high in fat, and very low in carbohydrates.

House cats can hunt and eat prey, but they can also be hunted and eaten.

Unlike ants, jumping spiders are visual and see their image in the wings, I've watched them dance to [an] image (thinking it a mate) rather than eat the prey.

That is, the habitat does not govern population dynamics — the carrying capacity is never strained — because predators eat the prey down to a fraction of the carrying capacity.

Not exact matches

And when the LORD thy God delivereth it into thy hand, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword; shalt thou take for a prey unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

Indeed, in Troilus and Cressida, Ulysses says precisely that: Since appetite is «an universal wolf, / so doubly seconded with will and power,» it «must make perforce an universal prey, / and last eat up himself.»

When I say anything, I mean that I fall prey of eating leftover mac and cheese, chocolate cake and even kale salads the next morning.

Metaphorically, the sheep of the West eat up not only all animals that prey upon them — coyotes, wildcats and eagles especially — but badgers, skunks, foxes, ringtails and others.

I will circle the buffet like a hawk, picking off my prey one by one until I have eaten my weight in six different kinds of chips.

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

He brought members up to date on her milestones, too: learning to eat from a bottle, then taking solid foods and feeding herself, learning to dive now that her buoyant pup fur is nearly replaced by grownup fur, and, just this week, discovering the pouches under her arms, which otters use to hold prey as they're foraging or to carry a useful rock for cracking clamshells.

Arrows go from the prey -LCB- what gets eaten -RCB- to the predator -LCB- what does the eating -RCB-.