Sentences with phrase «killing prey»

«In Athens - Clarke County, we found that about 30 percent of the sampled cats were successful in capturing and killing prey, and that those cats averaged about one kill for every 17 hours outdoors or 2.1 kills per week.

As a predator, you have two options for killing your prey: face to face (which generally gets you killed) or blindsiding for a clean kill (sometimes with the help of tall grass).

«In Athens - Clarke County, we found that about 30 percent of the sampled cats were successful in capturing and killing prey, and that those cats averaged about one kill for every 17 hours outdoors or 2.1 kills per week.

Applying the ESA prohibition on the take of an endangered species, including habitat degradation, to the issue of free - roaming cats, it would appear that under the right circumstances, aa court could find that cats degrade the habitat of endangered or threatened predator species by killing the prey upon which those species depend for food.

Are the cats really only killing prey with existing illness or injury who might have died or been killed by another predator anyway?

In the wild, these teeth would perform a variety of tasks such as grooming (the 6 small incisors at the front of each jaw), grasping and killing prey (the 4 long canines, also called «fangs»), and crushing and shearing the meat off the prey's bones to eat (the pointed molars and premolars along the sides of the jaws, also called «cheek teeth»).

I love giving dogs items that mimic natural behaviors such as killing prey.

There are some cats that live for the thrill of the hunt, but for other felines, batting around a catnip mouse is as close as they ever get to killing prey.

In the wild, a wolf or coyote with an overshot or undershot jaw would not be as successful in killing prey or in eating.

Dogs and cats evolved killing prey, including herbivores (or plant - eating animals), and eating the stomach contents of their prey.

If it succeeds in killing its prey — as it did Hugh's last sexual conquest, the woman in the prologue — it moves back down the line to the last person afflicted.

A few of the dragon attacks are then followed by the dragon being mysteriously absent, as if this winged creature was too aloof to follow - through with killing its prey, like a cat with a bug.

Actually, most wild animals, after killing their prey, go for the fat and other spare parts, instead of rushing to the meat, as we do... That's what got me interested in this kind of diet.

Researchers said that these dinosaurs had «steak knife - like» sharpness that made killing the prey simpler.

Instead of exhausting their prey through a long pursuit, the cats ambushed prey at a short distance and immobilized them using their massive forelimbs before killing the prey with precisely positioned bites, the researchers said.

Complementing this finding, the collars showed that mountain lions were more successful at finding and killing prey near houses than they were away from these structures.

It was a bipedal carnivore with a long, stiffened tail and had an enlarged, sickle - shaped claw on each hindfoot, which is thought to have been used to kill its prey.

Although tarantulas are such eager eaters that they often eat each other, Marshall found that a female Tanzanian chestnut tarantula will put down its freshly killed prey and allow its young to feed instead.

MASTER HUNTER Nerve cells in a mouse's amygdala send messages that help the rodent chase and kill prey such as crickets, a new study shows.

Scorpions have evolved an arsenal of toxic compounds to kill their prey and defend themselves against predators.

During such emergencies, extra blood flow to the brain could have helped them react quickly and cleverly to an impending threat or kill prey that was critical to their survival.

Naples has another theory: she thinks the sabre - tooth adaptation evolved so the opossum could kill prey larger than its body size would suggest.

King, a researcher at the University of Queensland in Australia, studies the neurotoxins that allow these creatures to paralyze and kill their prey.

The ability to damage or kill prey at a distance not only expands the range of foods available, but also reduces the risk of close confrontation with dangerous prey.

They kill their prey by spitting out antibiotics; then they spit out digestive enzymes that make the E. coli burst open.

The mites only eat their host spider's freshly killed prey, and don't scavenge on dead insects.

Like modern gray wolves, dire wolves — which «are not made - up beasts for «Game of Thrones,»» Brown said — were predators that caught and killed prey with their jaws.

Mantis shrimp use armlike body parts to kill prey.

While our ancestors likely needed elevated Ghrelin levels — and therefore increased GH, mental alertness, etc — in order to hunt and kill their prey, we can still adopt the same «template» of daily eating in the evening.

When you find one of the game's larger monsters, you don't simply slash away for five minutes and give yourself a pat on the back, the encounters can last upwards of thirty minutes, as you track and kill your prey.

He nails the role of the lunatic who abducts, tortures and kills his preys.

This guy, called Jeremy, was like a lion, like a beast ready to kill his prey.

They are courageous and ferocious and their jaw and body strength allows them to catch and kill prey.

His deeds take on mythic proportions as he kills his prey with an assegai, a Xhosa sword of vengeance.

Six months later, one of her doctors has been violently murdered, suspect Cat is on the run and mercenary Mick Carrera has been tasked with hunting her down — with the full understanding that he might have to kill his prey.

Even well - fed cats will hunt and kill prey.

Cats don't kill their prey with their claws, the claws are used to hold onto the prey, the teeth are used to kill the prey.

They have sharp claws and teeth, are extremely agile, and have a keen ability to stalk, pounce and kill their prey.

They have been bred for domestic traits that make them calmer housemates, but the natural tendency to hunt and kill prey is still present.

As for glandular extracts, if cats were eating freshly killed prey as they did before they were domesticated, they would consume many body parts, including glandular tissue.

From kittenhood on, cats will play chase, capture, and kill games with bits of lint on the floor, other kittens, shadows on the wall, moths and other insects, toys (of course) and their humans hands (which is a no - no) Cat play is a fallback to cats in the wild, where they must stalk and kill their prey in order to eat and survive.

Pit vipers are venomous and rely on the use of venom to kill prey to eat.

In the wild, feral cats hunt, stalk and then kill their prey.

A: As cats are natural predators, it's their inherent instinct to kill their prey.

Akita Inus would be used as hunting dogs, often cornering bears and keeping them at bat until the hunter could come and kill its prey.

The wolves * evolved into dogs — developing shorter teeth since their humans had weapons to kill the prey.

This practice turned into a mutually beneficial relationship where the dogs were able to track and corner the prey for the humans, and the humans were able to kill the prey and feed what they did not eat to the dogs.

Wolves and dogs parted ways 15,000 years ago, and while the carnivore, omnivore debate rages on, dogs have evolved to essentially forage off human waste rather than kill their prey.

Cats are not very big, and in some habitats they need to kill prey animals, such as rats, that are almost as big as they are.

«Because of the risks of feeding live prey, exotic pet veterinarians recommend feeding killed prey to all snakes.