Sentences with phrase «nocturnal predators»

Pikmin 3 is broken out into different days, and at the end of each day, you and your Pikmin must retreat back to your landing site to avoid any nocturnal predators.

At night, beware the Infected as they grow in strength and even more lethal nocturnal predators leave their nests to feed on their prey.

Continue exploring as night falls, searching for nocturnal predators on the prowl.

Cats are by nature nocturnal predators so it is not surprising for them to be active at night and rest during the day.

Despite their long stay, not much is known about the ecology of these small nocturnal predators with a sting in their tails.

Dingoes are the only known nocturnal predators in that area, but have no shortage of food thanks to a local industrial kitchen that throws out scraps twice a day.

The tree also provides a baseline to test whether diurnal, or daytime, activity, a common butterfly trait, evolved much earlier than scientists previously believed, possibly at a time when bats» spread across the planet, as a means of escaping these and other nocturnal predators, Kawahara said.

Light - emitting diode (LED) streetlights often draw moths and other insects into small areas at night, setting a buffet for nocturnal predators, but certain aspects of the lights themselves might be rendering insects vulnerable in even more sinister ways, new research suggests.

Koops agrees a feedback loop may have been at work: ground - sleeping could have provided cognitive boosts that helped hominins to ward off nocturnal predators — like mastering fire — allowing for even more restful sleep and further cognitive development.

They lacked upper body adaptations for climbing and may have used fires to ward off ground - dwelling nocturnal predators, although the evidence for controlled fire stretches back only 1 million years.

WASHINGTON, DC — Scandal engulfed the Clinton Administration once again Sunday, when allegations were made public that Vice President Al Gore engaged in an illicit sexual relationship with an endangered tree owl, then urged the winged nocturnal predator to lie about the affair under oath.

Not exact matches

Marian Stamp Dawkins, an animal behavior expert at the University of Oxford, has championed the idea that aspects of sensory processing can influence the evolution of communication signals; for example, a nocturnal species whose predators are color - blind would not evolve colored warning splotches.

Reclusive and mostly nocturnal, these rarely - seen creatures are the subjects of folklore — associated with fire because of some species» brilliant coloring, poisons because of the toxins some produce to discourage predators, and immortality because of their ability to regenerate lost limbs.

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

«Today, predators are largely active in dim light conditions,» says Schmitz, and his earlier work suggested that some predatory dinosaurs were nocturnal.

In fact many nocturnal synapsids were top predators, like Dimetrodon, a 4.5 - metre beast with a prominent fin on its back.

We thought the first mammals turned nocturnal to escape dinosaur predators, but 100 million years earlier, the precursors of mammals were active at night

Most predators are nocturnal.

As most predators are nocturnal, the dogs do compensate by seeming more alert in the evening and early morning hours, and will engage in play with each other, as they do mock battle and chase each other around the property.

According to the Great Pyrenees Club of America, the Great Pyrenees is naturally nocturnal and aggressive with any predators that may harm its flock.

They are nocturnal animals and, in the wild, burrow underground in the daylight hours to avoid predators.

They nocturnal and come out at night to avoid their main predators.

This nocturnal, top of the chain predator is exceedingly rare, but lives in a wide variety of habitats.

Top predators such as Angelsharks and Rays are often seen, sometimes just lurking in the edge of the torch beam; while nocturnal species such as golden balearic congers, squid, red - legged octopus, spiny pufferfish, echiurida, and canarian lobsterette can be seen.

At night, the hunter becomes the prey as the infected grow in strength and aggression - but even more lethal are the nocturnal, inhuman predators that leave their nests to feed.