Sentences with phrase «to evade predators»

In some cases, a curvy feeding trail abruptly transitions into a straight line, which Narbonne interprets as potential evidence of the grazer evading a predator.

Some animals and insects wear their costumes all year round, masquerading as plants, leaves, and even other creatures to better evade predators — and to hunt their own prey.

New fossils found in China show that flying fish were evading predators millions of years earlier than we thought

But did she walk upright most of the time like a modern human or still spend plenty of time in the trees evading predators?

The tail's speedy return to its natural shape could also help the seahorse evade predators, snapping the animal back into place close to the reef or seaweed to which it clung as it waited for food.

Filefish evade predators by feeding on their home corals and emitting an odor that makes them invisible to the noses of predators, the study found.

Although our stress response allowed us to evade predators thousands of years ago, we no longer need to use it in the same way.

A friendly or semi-friendly outdoor cat that has outdoor experience can survive quite well if placed in a group of at least four cats that includes ferals that are skilled at evading predators.

Females are a perfectly camouflaged brown — important when trying to evade predators like Arctic foxes while sitting on a nest on the tundra.

For all that «nature» around can determineis a life bounded by food, procreation, mating and lair building, holding of territory, evading predators, etc..

They found that its bones could tolerate low torsional forces, and so were most similar to birds like partridges that use flapping flight to go airborne for short periods, often to evade predators.

Later, only the fiercest manage to mate and evade predators.

Some of these have evolved for good reasons: Trusting signals from our social circles and rejecting information that contradicts our experience served us well when our species adapted to evade predators.

For instance, domesticated animals have smaller brains than their wild counterparts probably because they do not require the extra brainpower that could help them evade predators or hunt for food.

Long has used Tadros to study the evolution of backbones, testing the idea that by making ancient fish stiffer, backbones made them faster and hence better at collecting food or evading predators.

Despite its diminutive size, the snow flea, also called a spring tail, has garnered an online fan base for some of the charming strategies it uses to evade predators: In threatening situations, the insect ejects a springing device out of its rear end to propel itself to safety.

These extraordinary hairs contribute to the ability of geckos to run, evade predators, and protect their very lives and survival.

More grey matter is worth its energy cost to female guppies as they use their smarts to evade predators

Once the salmon reached the age when they would typically begin their seaward migration, researchers found they were less able to use oxygen to exercise, which is likely to hurt their ability to find food, evade predators, and migrate.

They ooze slime through pores in their skin, which they use to smother prey and evade predators.

Perhaps, they offer, this strategy evolved as a way to get warm and evade predators, such as crows.

That's what happens in the animal kingdom: a school of fish changes direction to evade a predator, for instance.

Staudigel notes that the microbes may bore into the volcanic glass (see image) not only to graze but to evade predators.

«Understanding that animals are capable of both self - propulsion and agency would have greatly helped our human ancestors to evade predators and to capture prey,» Baillargeon said.

To see if the chemical camouflage gives the filefish an evolutionary advantage to evade predators, the researchers tested cod to see how they responded to filefish that had been fed various diets.

«If they have to fly to evade a predator they will make a very quick ascent, typically followed by a very short horizontal flight and then they make a running escape afterwards.»

The protagonist, a Lorien boy named John Smith, hides in Paradise, Ohio, disguised as a human, trying to evade his predators and knowing he is next on their list.»

In particular, tethered animals are unable to evade predators, can not obtain shelter from climatic extremes and do not obtain sufficient exercise.

Rehabbers can not only feed it an appropriate diet for its species, but can help it learn how to find its own food, evade predators and learn other skills necessary for a successful life in the wild.

You'd be quite impressed by its ability to change colors, offering our scuba divers quite a show, and sometimes you'll see it spitting Ink to evade predators; most typically sharks, dolphins, seals, seabirds, and.....

Used to evade predators and act as a defense mechanism, it produces light when disturbed, giving out a quick flash of light to surprise the predator.

Taking place in post-societal America, players must traverse through procedurally - generated landscape, foraging for supplies, crafting survival tools and evading predators.

Pollinate flowers, navigate obstacle - filled paths, and evade predators and pesticides.This game features the plants, predators and wildlife that the common honeybee would encounter in...

Just like structural color in the animal kingdom is used to attract a mate, evade predators, or even communicate over long distances, here iridescence is used to confound and seduce the viewer.

It turned out that the warmer the temperature, the harder it was for the fish to swim, find food, evade predators and reproduce.