Sentences with phrase «more prey»

The new finding could explain why: if the cats are scared away from their kills before they finish feeding, they may be taking more prey to compensate.

More predators eat more prey, causing a net inward migration that is not at all a direct effect of radiation.

Editor's note: This story was updated March 7, 2018, to clarify that researchers predict that goatfish will catch more prey in a group hunt than alone, but the idea has not been shown yet.

The theory is that they use the jellyfish tentacles to ensnare more prey and then feed off whatever makes its way to the body of the medusa, with octopus beak docked inside it.

He suggests that female black widows kill more prey than they strictly need to, and display the half - eaten carcasses in their webs, to let males know that they aren't hungry.

A larger mouth would mean taking in more water and filtering out more prey per gulp, and a larger body could more efficiently travel long distances between feedings.

The findings, the scientists say, are the first to back up a decades - old theory that pitchers with intermittently slick rims would end up capturing more prey by allowing scout ants to safely escape and thus lure their colony mates.

Generalized hunting, with ten or more prey species.

But matters turn to worse when the stings from these wasps turn their victims into giant versions of these killer wasps, who are now looking for more prey.

The idea that «the baby knows when to be born» is paradigmatic example of the purpose driven misbelief; it's just as foolish as imagining that a cheetah knows that if it runs faster it will catch more prey.

The researchers think the octopus might even be using the jellyfish tentacles to ensnare more prey.

Simplistically, if humans do not «manage» predators — that is, kill off as many as possible — then there will be more of them, and sp they will kill more prey.

Instead, he argues, the variation may stick around in the neurotoxin genes because it is beneficial to produce more toxins for taking out more prey.

«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 site is expanding and will always have more prey.

As readers, we tend to be more subject, more prey to the need of instant gratification.

Adult dogs get roundworms from ingesting roundworm larvae, usually from contaminated soil or infected... MORE prey (such as a mouse or other small mammal).

On the other hand, there is plenty of research showing that the more prey - like the diet, the better for the cat.

More Prey can only be a good thing, I think.

Outdoor play also makes them more prey to insect vectors carrying dangerous infections.