Sentences with phrase «life potential predator»

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In experiments done at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute here, hermit crabs living in highly acidic conditions did not show the increased boldness of Munday's clown fish, but they took far longer to withdraw into their shells than normal when they came under attack from a potential predator (in this case, a toy octopus).

The tendency for adults to care for their offspring beyond birth is a key feature of the reproductive biology of living archosaurs — birds and crocodilians — with the latter protecting their young from potential predators and birds, not only providing protection but also provision of food.

In an interview with NIMBioS, Waller elaborated on the goals of the Social Predator Vocalization Project and its potential for helping coyotes and wolves live peaceably with humans.

Where Holland's version of a geeky teenage boy confronted with the reality of a vampire living next door fell short, director Craig Gillespie's update follows through, offering a horror film that is at once funny in a modestly self - aware way, occasionally unsettling in its depiction of a bloodsucker as a murderous sexual predator, and conscious of ensuring that its main characters come across as more than potential or, in some cases, inevitable chow.

Even cats who live happily with their own dogs see strange dogs as potential predators.