Sentences with phrase «to escape predators»

You are living in a landscape of fear, where your ability to survive depends on your ability to detect and escape predators as well as obtain food.

The decisions an animal makes when escaping a predator can mean the difference between life or death.

The deer that can sense danger the quickest and run the fastest are able to escape the predator on a more consistent basis.

It can stretch its roots toward water and its leaves toward sunlight, but it has few options for escaping predators or finding mates.

SOME lizards escape predators by shedding their tail, but the experience appears to leave its mark.

Nocturnal mammals can not easily work out the source of pure tones, which would have helped the katydids escape these predators, says Montealegre - Zapata.

Such transparency helps the glasswing escape predators» notice in the South American rainforests where it makes its home.

These elk were spending more time on flat, open ground and less in riskier terrain, where they might have had more difficulty escaping predators.

«This timid little fish escapes predators by injecting them with opioid - laced venom.»

it gave a fascinating perspective to the story but it somehow made their travels seem easier thinking that they were really «riding» from place to place and not hiding in barns, woods, escaping predators etc..

Evolution has given our feathered friends the instinct and equipment necessary to escape predators many times, but not all of the time.

Minimal care for your cats include: daily food and water, safe refuge from the elements and a means of escaping predators / a predator free area, frequent monitoring and willingness to vaccinate / provide veterinarian care as needed.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA, the researchers behind the new technology, explained how octopod escape predators:

The process by which octopuses and squids escape predators has inspired a new way for boats to accelerate through water.

This nutrition source was essential for building their own muscles to better escape predators, and ultimately, as the brain evolved, improved knowhow for hunting and the creation of tools for added success.

Back when our ancestors were climbing trees and jumping across rocks and escaping predators as hunter - gatherers, their babies and toddlers literally clung on to them for support and protection.

You will even spot different burrows where the iguanas go during the night and when escaping predators.

The shape of the ancient bird's wing bones suggests it was capable of short bursts of active, flapping flight, similar to how modern birds like pheasants and quails fly to escape predators, a new study finds.

Lizards will often shed their tails to escape a predator.

To survive, our early ancestors had to do several things repeatedly and very well: locate food, escape predators, mate and protect offspring.

That skeleton makes sense if australopithecines slept in trees at night to escape predators, as chimps do today.

The figure above shows the various depths (in meters) that animals migrate to during the day to escape predators.

How do you escape predators if you're tied to the ground?

The lizards use rodent burrows, most often found under shrubs, to escape predators.

The larger the insects, the less maneuverable they were in the air — and the less likely they were to escape predators, the researchers contend.

These dots have escaped the predator.

Lohmann thinks that the turtles are moving south - west to escape the predator - rich shallow waters of northern Africa, through which the gyre passes.

Although Lucy walked upright, she probably still slept in a tree nest at night or climbed trees to escape predators.

Many prey species mimic other poisonous prey or blend into the background to escape predators.

They escape predators via rapid and sustained flight, an adaptation found in ungulates from open plains with low flight impediments.

Warkentin discovered that the embryos can hatch early to escape predators.

Then because it helped them escape predators, they evolved a new way of moving their feathered forearms and thus equipped, they could flap away into the wild blue yonder.

Mangrove rivulus, which can live out of the water for extended periods of time (days or weeks, as long as the conditions are moist), uses its specialised jumping technique when water has low oxygen concentrations or high levels of hydrogen sulphide, or to escape predators and search for terrestrial prey such as crickets.

Many of the creatures in the White Sands ecosystem, including the lesser earless lizard and the Apache pocket mouse, have undergone rapid evolution in response to their unique environment, developing a lighter appearance that allows them to blend into the gypsum sands and escape predators.

«If you're a fish that can operate in very shallow water, you can escape predators that can only swim in deeper water,» Jenkins explains.

The marble hatchet fish can fly to escape predators.

Mangrove rivulus are capable of «tail - flip jumping» many times their body length when out of water, allowing them to escape predators and find better habitats.

«Ancient reptile Captorhinus could detach its tail to escape predator's grasp.»

Over 100 whales and 20 dolphins stranded on a remote beach in Tasmania may have been driven to their deaths in a desperate attempt to escape a predator, Australian scientists have suggested.

«Males may encounter problems that negatively affect weapon growth during development to adulthood, like self - amputating a limb as a self - defence mechanism to escape predators,» says Joseph.

The fruit fly may seem like a simple creature with a simple set of behaviors — locate food, escape predators and find a mate.

Sea snails that leap to escape their predators may soon lose their extraordinary jumping ability because of rising human carbon dioxide emissions, a team of international scientist...

For example, the water fleas developed various defense mechanisms to escape predators.

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have designed a soft robot based on a fish, which can bend its body and quickly flee the way that real fish do to escape predators.

The new data «also show a decrease in the ability of fish to escape a predator,» she points out.

Living in the wild, our survival required us to pay attention and be present — noticing food, escaping predators, and avoiding the always embarrassing / entertaining pratfall.

It's a role tailor - made for Leguizamo's shape - shifting brand of comedy: In order to escape his predators, Pest assumes a variety of disguises, including an Orthodox Jew, an Japanese karaoke singer and a deeply Afrocentric African - American.