Sentences with phrase «like predators and prey»

Not exact matches

This may seem like some useless information when an ocean's worth of water is pushing in on them from every side, but sharks use this ability to figure out where other fish, both predators and prey, are.

There are likes and dislikes, personal agendas, predator and prey.

Apparent death, as it is scientifically called, is an involuntary physiological response similar to fainting that causes the opossum to appear and smell like a dead or dying animal, thereby deterring predators who generally prefer live prey.

Prey like moose and white - tailed deer are expanding in numbers and range because of logging and climate change, which in turn increases predator numbers (e.g. wolves).

While some pack members dig for invertebrates and other things to eat, other residents serve as lookouts and sound the alarm to let foragers know about potential predators like snakes and birds of prey.

Observing the behaviors of dangerous and cryptic predators like alligators is no easy task, so scientists used animal - borne cameras to monitor alligators capturing prey and their other activities.

Circular pupils are generally found on animals that chase down their prey, such as cheetahs, or on taller ambush predators like lions and tigers.

«Unfortunately, these two explanations were not lining up in explaining large predator movements in back yards, and even contradicted each other, especially when there could actually be more prey, like deer, available near people's homes,» said Blecha.

The fish also did things that could lead to life - shortening events — like failing to take usual precautions around predators and making them easier prey.

They feed on the bottom of the food chain — on single - celled plankton, which larger fish can not eat — and then they become prey for all sorts of upper - level predators like tuna, sea bass and halibut as well as seabirds and marine mammals.

The researchers also found greater numbers of predators and scavengers under the lamps — like ground beetles, harvestmen and ants — because it may be easier to hunt for prey with the help of a spotlight.

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.

If seen from this perspective, a free online dating site looks like a small jungle in which some are the prey and others the predators.

With his full beard lined with gray and soft paunch, Donal may not look like much, but he's a resourceful chap, tough and able with wrench and gun, so soon he turns from prey to predator, very much turning the tables on his aggressors.

Much like the chameleon, the cuttlefish is also capable of changing its color and appearance to blend in with its surroundings and hide from both predator and prey.

Hawke (and the audience) feel like a predator stalking its prey, which is desperately trying to get away, and I find that really interesting.

Successful traders trade like a predator, sitting on the sidelines and waiting to pounce on their prey like a tiger.

Even though other breeds had specific occupations in the service of man, they are not known as working breeds: sighthounds running down prey or predators, gundogs flushing food for the table, terriers and toys terrorizing vermin — these were more or less doing what they would do without human ownership, anyway, so their jobs were considered less like «work.»

Play is a great way to get exercise, and cats love to play games that have them behaving like a predator chasing prey.

It's not only parasites that threaten outdoor cats, it's a long list of additional predators including coyotes, fox, wolves, larger birds of prey, stray dogs and even other cats — who may share infectious disease like feline leukemia or the feline immunodeficiency virus.

For example, dogs, which are predator animals, behave differently than prey animals, like rabbits and horses, which tend to hide their pain.

Wand toys are great for simulating prey behavior and letting your cat stalk and pounce like a predator.

It's been demonstrated — though Clark and his colleagues won't acknowledge it — that cats (like all predators) tend to prey on the young, the old, the weak and unhealthy.

Chickens are prey species and are naturally stressed when they are around predators — including pets like cats and dogs.

In this process, a predator, like the golden eagle, feeds on at least two prey, for example, the island fox and feral pigs.

There's still a lot of manful (read: girly) tears coming from series veterans who say that Absolution isn't truly a good Hitman game, and like those media muppets I can see their point as well: levels are smaller and there's more moments where you're prey rather than predator, but that's all liquid shit under the bridge because I enjoyed the hell out of Absolution.

Aloy feels like an inextricable part of it, halfway between prey and predator.

Otherwise rogue agents felt more like prey than predator, and the mobs actually proved a much greater threat than the players.

With huge metabolic demands — and large populations before humans started hunting them — great whales are the ocean's ecosystem engineers: they eat many fish and invertebrates, are themselves prey to other predators like killer whales, and distribute nutrients through the water.

For example, cod and lobster fisheries south of Cape Cod are projected to have significant declines.83, 84 Although suitable habitats will be shrinking for some species (such as coldwater fish like brook trout) and expanding for others (such as warmwater fish like bass), it is difficult to predict what proportion of species will be able to move or adapt as their optimum climate zones shift.85 As each species responds uniquely to climate change, disruptions of important species interactions (plants and pollinators; predators and prey) can be expected.

Canestrari said they know there are predators in the area like cats, and birds of prey like raptors, but they aren't sure which are the biggest threat to crows.

I would like to see our money spent on other issues, such as catching online predators that prey on the weak and children, building new Jails to support the ever demanding prison population increases, more money to our police forces accross the nation, education, healthcare, infostructure, issues like that, which are important, not on this copyright law which isnt an important issue and never really has been.

Some dogs even crouch or lay down — like you're the prey and they're the predator — before an attack.