Sentences with phrase «of animal prey»

The theory is that our ancestors would spend much of the day in hunt of their animal prey — eating fresh vegetables and fruits as they were available — and then feasting on their kill in the evening, eating enough to satisfy them until the next kill.

While cats sometimes might be the top predators in their environments, some of the animals they prey on are also predators, like rats.

[FN34] To make matters worse, many of the animals preyed upon by cats are federal and state listed threatened and endangered species.

Not exact matches

«The Red Triangle includes roughly 200 miles of coastline.But it's not the beachgoers and surfers that attract great whites to these waters.It's the rich population of other mammals like elephant seals, harbor seals, sea lions, and sea otters.Great whites prefer to prey on these animals instead of humans.

There would be a mass die off of animals once the ark landed because most of the animals feed on others, and with only two of which, the prey would be annihilated very quickly, and the predatory then would starve.

That did not happen: there is no geological record of a world - wide flood, there is not enough diversity to regenerate the population we currently, there is not enough water to cover the earth to the height of Everest, the logistics of retrieving and returning animals to the then - unknown Americas, Australia, etc. were staggeringly difficult, managing the animals on the Ark was impossible — a few humans keeping predators from their prey, cleaning the waste, etc., pretty much all life on earth would have been killed, etc. etc..

Researchers from Zoological Society of London, Panthera and Wildlife Conservation Society conducted the study and reported that nearly 91 percent of cheetahs have been driven out of their historic range because people have been hunting the animal's prey.

It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticize militancy in women that it is very like beasts of prey reproaching gentler animals who turn in desperate resistance when at the point of death.

Just as physics generalizes variables of movement so that they can apply not only to a human hunter and his fleeing prey, but also to stars, planets, atoms, and photons, so psychics needs to generalize such ideas as feeling, perceiving, remembering, anticipating, intending, liking and disliking, so that they can apply not only to animals, but even to the real individual constituents of the vegetable and mineral portions of nature.

Animals that at any other time of year might stay away from each other, or even prey on one another, will live in relative peace and safety near the water hole.

We don't encourage our daughters to walk around naked in it because it makes them prey for animals and less than animals, a distressing majority of whom work in the music industry and its associated media.

Over the last nine years Mr. Ozersky, a successful food writer, editor, and TV producer, has grown Meatopia into a celebration of prey animals in all of their succulent glory.

Metaphorically, the sheep of the West eat up not only all animals that prey upon them — coyotes, wildcats and eagles especially — but badgers, skunks, foxes, ringtails and others.

On Thursday, March 29 drop by to see two live animal shows at 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. featuring beautiful birds of prey.

Learn all about farm life, explore the forest, field, and wetlands looking for tracks and signs of plants and animals that live at Drumlin Farm year - round, discover the special adaptations that make birds of prey such skilled hunters, or journey back in time to learn about growing up in New England through cooking, stories, and games.

Animal welfare campaigners also claim that physiological evidence shows that fish removed from water experience stress and lose some of their waterproofing - making them easier prey and more prone to infection.

To be precise, Carneiro points to hunting as the main source of lead in these birds of prey, via the intake of meat with bullet traces in the remains of dead animals.

While some of the captive seals seemed to prefer swallowing their prey whole, both the wild and captive animals relied heavily on their claws overall, the scientists found.

All of the infected animals are sifakas — the only lemur species out of 17 at the center known to fall prey to the parasite — and most of them were under age five when they got sick.

Identifying the factors that determine these patterns — the distances separating populations, physical barriers preventing the movement of animals, hunting behavior, and interactions with prey species — is the fun part.

Studies of those ancient Namibian reefs suggest that animals were indeed starting to fall prey to predators by the end of the Ediacaran.

Lots of animals differ in the parts of the color spectrum that they see best because of how they are tuned to their environments — whether they live in the deep sea or in caves, whether they mostly go out in the day or at night, or whether they're trying to pick up ultraviolet patterns on flowers or on prey.

King hypothesizes that proteins that the single - celled ancestors of animals used to interact with the extracellular environment — to capture bacterial prey by binding to their cell surface and to detect chemical signals — were later repurposed to enable cells to stick to and talk to each other.

The animals radiate tremendous amounts of body heat through their «hot plates,» which they use to melt their tunnels in ice and to hunt their favorite prey: penguins.

Sight drives nearly every aspect of their lives, including catching prey and communicating with other animals.

This gives the animal a perpetual view of the sky, which allows it to stay close to the mangrove forests where its prey lives.

Ancient baleen whales found in the same area «would have been perfect prey for such an animal,» says Lambert, who has returned to Peru in search of the rest of Livyatan's skeleton.

Global loss of vagility alters a key ecological trait of animals that affects not only population persistence but also ecosystem processes such as predator - prey interactions, nutrient cycling, and disease transmission.

Cat Wars has a broader, more ecological focus, documenting the global impact of cats on wildlife, both by preying on animals and by transmitting diseases.

Midgallop, a cheetah hooks one of its two sharp, retractable claws into the prey's rump to yank the animal off balance.

With an estimated 1 million animals killed every day on America's road network, the effect of this constant removal of predators and prey is felt over much wider areas.

She says that perhaps the best advice is to stick with a group; that sharply reduces the risk of attack, because animals typically target lone prey who have no chance of backup support from a herd.

The current extinction of many of Earth's large terrestrial carnivores has left some extant prey species lacking knowledge about contemporary predators, a situation roughly parallel to that 10,000 to 50,000 years ago, when naı̈ve animals first encountered colonizing human hunters.

In a first, researchers in Japan have captured the brain activity of a living animal as it pursues its prey.

But the Sumatran evidence shows that some of the earliest people to depart from Africa figured out how to survive in rainforests, where detailed planning and appropriate tools are needed to gather seasonal plants and hunt scarce, fat - rich prey animals, Westaway and colleagues report online August 9 in Nature.

In order to examine parasite infections also in the wolf's large prey species, the team collected internal organs of shot prey animals from hunting parties.

«It would also be great to apply this type of experiment to other questions, such as how different environments affect the amount of predation that prey animals experience.»

Potential prey animals of the wolf feed then on vegetation that was previously contaminated with the parasites.

«Both malaria and Helicosporidium started out as alga and ended up as intracellular parasites preying on animals, but they have done it in very different ways,» says Keeling, director of the Centre for Microbial Diversity and Evolution at UBC and a Senior Fellow of Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

Others, such as Sarcocystis parasites, first live in an intermediate host, the prey animal of the wolf, and reach their final host, the wolf, only if the intermediate host has been consumed by the final host.

Hydra is a genus of tiny freshwater animals that catch and sting prey using a ring of tentacles.

Whatever the case, the researchers assert, «we suspect that exploitation of these cues is common among large animals that track moving prey through water.»

Scaling their model up to a shark 21 feet long and weighing 7,300 pounds — akin to the largest of living white sharks — they found that such an animal opening its jaws to a 35 degree angle could squeeze its prey with almost 4,000 pounds of force.

Here they might be prey for some of the original animals and they can also be eaten themselves.

This process was hypothesized to result from an evolutionary chemical arms race, in which the invention of potent venom in the predatory animals and the evolution of venom resistance in their prey animals, exert reciprocal selection pressures.

Venom is a complex mixture of proteins and other toxic chemicals produced by animals such as snakes and spiders, either to incapacitate their prey or to defend against predators.

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Nutrients help sustain phytoplankton and zooplankton, the tiny aquatic plants and animals at the base of the food web that support other aquatic life, including prey fishes.

«When you have hundreds of thousands of animals to feed and you have a fluctuating prey base that has trended downward, you are going to have starving animals,» said Sam McClatchie of NOAA Fisheries» Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, Calif., and lead author of the new research.

They generally seem to choose prey on the basis of how dangerous it is perceived to be, the general size of the potential prey animal, etc..