Sentences with phrase «longer predator and prey»

«The media is no longer predator and prey, which I think should be the relationship, but a remora, attached at the bottom looking for crumbs coming off the shark,» he said.

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They think the ancient species, Chimerarachne yingi, lived in tropical forests and had a long tail that it may have used to sense prey and predators.

When one species disappears, its predators can no longer eat it and its prey are no longer eaten by it.

Rolf O. Peterson (1944 ---RRB- Peterson helms the world's longest - running study of the predator - prey relationship in the wild, between wolves and moose on Isle Royale in the middle of Lake Superior.

Long Yu of Hubei University in China and his team have shown that the spider Phrynarachne ceylonica «s foul smell may help it attract prey and deter predators.

Mangrove rivulus, which can live out of the water for extended periods of time (days or weeks, as long as the conditions are moist), uses its specialised jumping technique when water has low oxygen concentrations or high levels of hydrogen sulphide, or to escape predators and search for terrestrial prey such as crickets.

Unlike previous ones, the new model showed that predator and prey populations fluctuate less in complex food webs — those with long food chains, omnivorous predators, and competing species of plant - eaters.

Among the weird and wonderful creatures to emerge in the early Cambrian was Anomalocaris, the free - swimming, metre - long top predator of the time with a mouth composed of 32 overlapping plates that could constrict to crush prey.

Deviations tells how these peoples cope with the reality of being sentient creatures forced to play the roles of predator and prey, and how several of them try to thwart long - established conventions in the hope of overcoming their biological imperative.

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.

«The distinction between compensatory and additive mortality does, however, become increasingly redundant as the number of birds killed in a given area increases: where large numbers of prey are killed, predators would probably be killing a combination of individuals with poor and good long - term survival chances.

We argue that the behavioural capacity of feral cats to undertake long - distance excursions to exploit transient hunting opportunities results in significantly higher total predator pressure on prey, and helps to explain how low - density cat populations could have large impacts on small - mammal abundance at landscape scales.

There was a time when only the strong survived and although «Fido» no longer has to survive the prey - predator threats of his ancestors, the drive to diminish displays of pain still remains in pets.

In the next game you will experience a globetrotting Agent 47 at the prime of his career — the apex predator stalking his prey across the world, with the support of his long - term handler Diana Burnwood and the whole of the ICA.

In Vampire The Masquerade: We Eat Blood you're a young artist who wakes up at night to find you're no longer human... but exactly what are you and why are you so ravenously hungry for blood?!? Told entirely through an innovate mobile messaging perspective, We Eat Blood is a sharp, mature, and terrifying story about your first nights as unwilling predator and prey.