Sentences with phrase «most of the predators»

It was given the name Wunderpus photogenicus because the photographer and scientists found that the species could mimic most of its predators, including lionfish and mantis shrimps, as a means of defense.

They aren't even particularly important to the diet of most of the predators that eat them.

I have most of the Predator's comics, and it would be cool to see their home planet, culture and other mysterious creatures that influence who they are.

Not exact matches

Most top predators of the planet are majestic creatures.

The sharks are advising you to enter their gaping maws, where you enter into your great reward at the cruel jaws of one of nature's most cunning predators.

His Juan, far from being meant to engage our sympathy, is for the most part rather uninteresting: an ordinary profligate, cad, and sexual predator of noble extraction, with sufficient means to pursue his desires and without any discernible sign of a conscience to impede the pursuit.

The predator's skills and attitudes are also those cherished by the economic establishment, and successfully learning them is the way value is most profoundly appropriated at MIT and at other institutions of higher education as well.

Benzema has shone in his time with Real, and scored 22 goals in all competitions last season to establish himself as one of the most dangerous goal predators in the European game.

During varmint - calling time the Arizona desert lands strangely resound with the shrill and plaintive cries of rabbits, arousing the curiosity of even the most sophisticated predators

During the six months he researched the series — a task that took him through most of the Western states — Olsen was increasingly astonished at how romantic the job of predator trapping had once seemed to him.

Of the players that didn't make the shortlist, Diego Milito's absence was the most perplexing and his consistently decisive 32 - goal haul for Internazionale last season proves that the penalty box predator is far from obsolete.

Find out what's on the menu as we explore three of the Bay's most fascinating predators — from keen...

While certainly upsetting, these high profile cases are a good opportunity to spark a conversation with your kids about staying safe, as parents are the first and most powerful line of defense against predators....

For most of human history, our ancestors» biggest sleep problem was almost certainly the avoidance of predators.

SARASOTA — Scientist Carl Luer has spent most of his life studying an animal humans inherently fear: sharks.The predators of the sea have been the villains of thriller tales since the 1974 novel, Jaws They've invaded the streets of Los Angeles in the...

While the most common association with the term remains a Predator - like «killer» drone, tomorrow's associations are likely to be more positive — of a toy drone used to take drone selfies (or «dronies), or of a «burrito bomber», rather than an actual one.

BASC strongly opposes the Hunting Act, and believes land owners and managers should be able to choose the most effective methods of pest and predator control for their circumstances.

In 2005, a Las Vegas casino that was seeking an expansion into New York got fined $ 25,000 because the casino charged Silver $ 109 a night for a luxury suite that normally went for $ 1,500 a night — an obvious violation of the law limiting gifts to state officials to $ 75 or less... Perhaps the most monstrous of Silver's uncharged offenses involves his coddling of sexual predators in the state capital.»

Labour's poll ratings are bouncing around on a par with the Conservatives, a party whose populist programme includes a 1930s austerity package, the effective abolition of the NHS and the early release of some of the nation's most brutal sexual predators.

Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Warren Redlich is the target of one of the most extreme smear campaigns I've seen in 15 years of political reporting via a mailer that falsely labels him a «sexual predator.»

See the inner workings of the planet's most perfect predator in the safety of your own home with this 13» model.

The best escape move, according to analysis of the most detailed chase data yet from big cat predators, is some fluky turn, even though turning requires a slower stride.

For years, sharks have been hunted for their valuable fins, but now most of these vital ocean predators have vanished from the deep.

Sharks are superb predators, but even they are no match for the animal kingdom's most disgusting yet effective defense: the gag - inducing slime of the hagfish.

This showed that horns were most likely in conspicuous species — those living in open habitats and large enough to be clearly visible to predators — suggesting that they evolved as defensive weapons (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rspb.2009.1256).

Although considered one of the most successful predators on Earth due to the high kill - rate their cooperative hunting achieves, African wild dog populations are declining due to pressures including habitat loss and human - wildlife conflict.

The islands are notable for their distance from the Ecuadoran mainland and for their arid volcanic terrain, which produced the Galápagos's most striking and fortuitous distinction: the relative absence of people (and other predators).

Dimetrodon, one of the most recognisable of the pre-dinosaur predators, might not actually have crawled across the ground as it's usually depicted

In nightjars, however, which conceal their eggs by remaining motionless over them when predators approached, it was the appearance of the adults that was most important for their survival: nightjars that matched the background pattern were more likely to save their eggs from being eaten.

This has for the most part rendered cops and security experts powerless to trace the origins of the files and catch the predators.

The most likely explanation is that kiwis do not need vision because of where and how they live: they are active at night, and their habitat offers plenty of food and no predators, apart from introduced animals such as stoats.

He has found that a nest's chance of survival depends on the predator's technique — broods are least likely to survive (10 %) when the predator manages to get into the cavity through the existing entrance, more likely (29 %) when the predator uses its paws or beak to pluck out the nest contents, and most likely to survive (39 %) when the predator tries to enlarge the opening or make a new one.

A stealth virus, most often borne on the wings of a ubiquitous predator, is spreading across the Americas.

Recreational fishing and crabbing on Cape Cod have removed most of the native predators that used to eat a common native species called the purple marsh crab (Sesarma reticulatum).

With most other predators now out of the picture, early sharks and ray - finned fish like Fouldenia used their crushing jaws to dine on these spiny, stalked and hard - shelled creatures.

Whereas camouflage from predators is still probably the single most important factor governing the evolution of dull and mottled egg colors, for the brighter colors the biophysical evidence points to the sun.

Most previous studies have relied on human assessments of appearance, but predators often see the world very differently to humans.

The fastest and most famous case of evolution by natural selection is the case of the British peppered moths: In the 19th century, as mills and factories began to darken the air with soot, a rare all - black mutant quickly became more common in Britain than the normal white moth with black spots because it was less conspicuous to predators.

Most of us are safe from starvation and predators.

The clawing and biting of hawks and other predators most likely rips the skin and lets the poison ooze out, potentially blinding the snake's attackers, says herpetologist Deborah Hutchinson of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va. «It might not kill the predator but it would be noxious enough to deter predation,» she says.

Instruments strapped onto and ingested by sharks are revealing novel insights into how one of the most feared and least understood ocean predators swims, eats and lives.

It was an emotionally draining exercise because the skeleton represents one of evolution's most iconic specimens; its spectacular four - foot - long skull gave humanity its first face - to - face glimpse of the most imposing and ferocious predator ever to walk the continents.

«What we found was that red squirrels were indeed the most frequent predators of Rusty Blackbird nests, at least in Maine,» explains Buckley Luepold.

Most studies of animal warning colors focus on how well they deter potential predators, but far fewer have examined whether the same signals help their bearers avoid detection by parasites, prey, or competitors, the researchers say.

Then they placed the spiders on a specially designed box to eliminate any vibrations from below — most spiders sense their surroundings through vibrations — and scared the heck out of them with a speaker - produced buzz of one of their predators, the mud dauber wasp.

Most scientists thought that a bird's preference for a certain number of companions had to be determined at least in part by life experience or by ecological conditions such as food abundance or the threat of predators.

Most research on color and behavior in toxic amphibians has focused on interactions between individuals of the same species or between predators and prey.

It was most certainly nocturnal, a predator of insects and a tree - dweller.

«White sharks are the largest and most charismatic of the predator sharks, and the poster child for sharks and the oceans in general,» said Burgess, whose research program is based at the Florida Museum of Natural History on the UF campus.

But because it lacks the pigments that cover the rest of the octopus's body, the sex organ needs to be inconspicuous most of the time to avoid attracting predators.