Sentences with phrase «kind of prey»

In keeping with their «biologically appropriate» claims, they formulate their products in a way that mimics the nutrient ratios found in whole prey animals — the kind of prey that wild dogs eat.

And the celebrating upper class company provides just the right kind of prey.

«It has this very specific way of approaching a very specific kind of prey,» Huffard said.

In the long term, Boal said he would like to also study eagles» food habits by putting remote cameras near eagle nests to see what kind of prey they bring back for their young.

In spite of the size disadvantage and cell overcrowding, the researchers find the juveniles doing many of the sophisticated things their big brothers can do such as deciphering between different kinds of prey like a mosquito versus a fly.

Again, according to these companies, in the wild a wolf / dog would be eating different kinds of prey and thus getting many different kinds of amino acids in his diet.

And in fact, they enjoy all kinds of prey — from zebras to small hippos to, as mentioned, humans in sub-Saharan Africa.

Not exact matches

Those kinds of sharks like to be in the shallow surf, and actually can find prey by detecting the electrical charge emitted by their muscles.

Its a sad day when our young black men do nt have the freedom to walk through certain neighborhoods without being harrased are mudered, no one has the right to just take a life just because of the color of your skin we as a people has to stand up to injustices such as this no one wants to hear the truth there is still a racial devide in America and our justice system create laws so that this kind of injustice can continue to happen rather u want to admit it are not our young black men are the prey.

Sprat sought to oppose a certain kind of fantasy, but himself fell prey to it.

Harold Camping is a scam artist and opportunist of the worst kind... he preys on people's fears.

Priests that had a history of bad behavior were shipped to different churches where the congregation had no idea what kind of criminal had been placed in their midst to prey on their children.

It is the suggestiveness, the persuasive likenesses, the manifold make - believe of things as perceived that we are prey to, long before we are plagued by their secretiveness and our curiosity: they too «talk» to us in many tongues, and time and again are found out to have «lied» by «pretending» to be what they are not... [Then we seek to penetrated «behind» appearance — to a truth different from it in kind.

Religions have been preying on that kind of intellectual laziness for centuries.

For reasons Maritain articulates at some length, a certain kind of democracy, guarded against the diseases to which «pure» democracies are prey, best represents the full flowering of human practical wisdom about the sorts of institutions worthy of Jewish and Christian thought.

When the secular intelligentsia falls prey to the same kind of credulity and intellectual flaccidity more frequently associated with the ecclesiastical community, the intelligentsia and its media arm pause for a minute, then move on.

In the same paragraph he quotes his predecessor John Paul II with effusive approval: «All renewal in the Church must have mission as its goal if it is not to fall prey to a kind of ecclesial introversion» (EG 27).

There's also a «seductor» type, and this is the kind of pedophile most likely to seek work as a coach of children — the likable, chatty, often witty guy who finds in sports an accessible pool of children to prey on.

He might find less noise and distractions outside of the capital (not that he has fallen prey to such disruptive influences during his career so far) but would he be granted the same kind of stage to prove himself and gain the profile to become an England regular at St. Mary's?

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.

But mainly this just screams of a marketing scam preying on some kind of guilt?

Persecutors are worse than beasts, in that they prey upon those of their own kind.

[iv] This means that Kenya is less likely to fall prey to the kinds of pre-emptive proclamations of victory which caused so much political frustration to supporters of Odinga in 2007/8.

That phrasing — with its intimation that gays might prey on children — hardly seems the kind of guarantee sought by the United States and other Western governments and human rights activists.

An unknown killer preying on pigs in China has been identified as a new kind of coronavirus.

But it was not known how effective different kinds of points were in causing lethal injury to prey.

Cats, wild dogs, foxes, birds - of - prey, snakes and even certain kinds of insects have been known to prey heavily upon mice.

If we start losing key prey species, we may find ourselves with all kinds of unexpected effects.»

They also found that «the greater one's knowledge about the news media — from the kinds of news covered, to the commercial context in which news is produced, to the effects on public opinion news can have — the less likely one will fall prey to conspiracy theories.»

«We believe that they use sponges as a kind of glove to protect their sensitive rostrums when they probe for prey in the substrate,» says Michael Krützen, formerly of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and now at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

In particular, it has a long cochlear duct, a canal in the inner ear associated with the ability to hear the kind of low - frequency sounds that its vegetarian prey would have made as they crept through the underbrush.

But instead of traipsing into the woods to find animals that prey on lizards, he and his colleague turned to another kind of predator: graduate students.

Researchers have studied the predator — prey dynamics on Isle Royale since 1958, making the project the longest - running of its kind.

The study, recently published in Nature Climate Change, is the first of its kind to clearly demonstrate the importance of modeling climate change, prey availability and their interactions in the development of management plans.

Anthropologists concluded that they had stumbled upon the remains of some ancient hominid kitchen and that the Taung child had perhaps fallen prey to one of its own kind, a carnivorous beast, a shell - cracking and bone - breaking ape.

Being biased to one side would seem like a serious handicap: A toad that hopped to the left whenever it was startled by a predator, for instance, would be easy prey for an attacker that could anticipate which way it would go; the same holds for any other kind of ingrained behavioral imbalance.

They want to study why each kind of bird specializes in a different type of prey.

If you find yourself falling prey to similar kinds of exercise - related injuries, you're probably doing something wrong.

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.

The first half of the film builds suspense by putting the group through a number of classic hunting situations — from the perspective of the prey — being flushed out by dogs [though these alien «dogs» have all kinds of horns, spine razors and bad attitudes]; a booby - trapped companion; wandering into deadfalls, and the like.

He's a master of the kind of creeping tension that coils around the audience like a snake suffocating its prey.

«These kinds of lootboxes and microtransactions are explicitly designed to prey upon and exploit human psychology in the same way casino games are so designed,» Lee wrote (in a rather lengthy post) on Reddit.

So many media depictions of this kind of person, a young black man who's had trouble with the law, fall prey to stereotypes.

We follow him through his humdrum days of stalking and then dispatching his prey, until he finds his own unwholesome kind of family in the form of buddy Otis and his sister Becky.

Possibly the last of their kind, moving from town to town and still working out some serious parent - child issues (not the least of which is their approach to handling their prey) Gemma Arterton literally vamps it up, putting on a prostitute pose to seduce lowlives and cops, while her daughter, plays more school girl, a more subtle and melancholic performance by Saoirse Ronan.

Rabbit and fox have to get over their stereotypes of each other's «kind» to crack this case and save a city whose fabric rips at the seams when the whole predator - prey peace breaks down.

* 1/2 / **** Image A Sound A Extras D + starring Gina Gershon, Drea De Matteo, Marc Blucas, Shelly Cole screenplay by Cheri Lovedog & Robin Whitehouse directed by Alex Steyermark by Walter Chaw Released haphazardly in the same calendar year as Alex Proyas's endlessly disappointing Garage Days, Alex Steyermark's Prey for Rock & Roll travels similar garage band routes while taking the distaff trail and deciding to play it as if its central band, the cleverly monikered Clam Dandy, is better than horrible (in an L7 78 - played - at - 45 kind of way).

This is the exact kind of easy grift scared people would fall prey to on a massive scale, and it doubles as an appealing gameplay facet.

Predictable and consistent behavior Prefers human company, especially children Relatively «directable» without training Affectionate Able to be banged around, by kids and clumsy humans Comfortable indoors, and in the climates you live in and take vacations Doesn't require a lot of exercise Calm in the home; not hyperactive Medium high food drive; medium high prey drive (for fetching) Able to take, and learn from, a correction Low initiative Low fearfulness Submissive Low other - dog aggression Quiet; not highly reactive to bark at sights and sounds around the home or in public Image of a guard dog without the actual follow through (if you are into that kind of thing) Easily Housetrained (some breeds are easier than others)

If your dog's prey drive is very high and your cat is a victim of aggression from your dog, your dog needs to go back to basics and needs to learn that aggression of any kind is completely unacceptable.