During the later period, when there was less sea ice, the whales dove significantly longer and deeper than in the earlier period — presumably
in search of prey as the animals, in turn, changed their habits because of different ocean conditions brought on by sea ice loss.
Owen butts heads with the ship's captain, George Pollard (Benjamin Walker from «Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter») over how to command the crew and set the course of the vessel as they roam the Atlantic
Ocean in search of their prey.
Among other things, they told me that owls had come to the
plaza in search of prey, and that the swallows had fled in a panic.
Fishermen still make offerings at the volcano for a good catch and hunters still fan across its forested
skirt in search of prey.
Large predators like, for instance, crocodile - like amphibians and later the precursors of the known plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs
went in search of prey in the oceans soon after the end of the mass extinction.
Last year, scientists in Denmark showed that terrestrial leeches can be used similarly to sample an area's fauna, though they feast on fewer species than do carrion flies, don't travel as
far in search of prey, and live in only certain habitats.
The authors hypothesize that either wind blew the jellyfish into shallower water or the creatures swam
there in search of prey.
During winter the cats will often descend to lower
elevations in search of prey, but in summer they move back up the mountain to the steepest and most remote terrain.
While in the nearly forsaken city of Seattle, a makeshift family of refugees has carved out a tenuous existence among the street gangs, mutants, and marauders fighting to stay alive against mounting odds — and something unspeakable that has come from the
shadows in search of prey.
There is nothing more painful, especially if you're a young reader, than cruising into a
forest in search of prey or getting off a boat in search of romance and adventure and realizing that you don't know the meaning of a word.
Hunting, pouncing, and body postures of play aggression are the types of behaviors displayed by cats
when in search of prey.
«Pelagornis sandersi could have traveled for extreme distances while crossing ocean
waters in search of prey,» Daniel Ksepka of the Bruce Museum of Arts and Science in Greenwich, Connecticut, and the study's lead author, said in a statement.
The behemoth is also described to have this intense metabolism, which explains why it is
always in search of prey to feast on.