Sentences with phrase «of nearby predators»
The reality is that most stables and farms already have more cats than they need or worse, they have no cats at all due to the presence of nearby predators, such as foxes or coyotes.
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The first kind of behavior is a reaction to a potential threat, in which a predator isn't visible but there is good reason to worry that it might be nearby.
Megan Gall and Jacob Damsky of New York's Vassar College tested how traffic noise affected the reactions of Black - capped Chickadees and Tufted Titmice to titmouse alarm calls, which warn birds that a predator is nearby.
Yellowtail's was just the kind of situation that the behavior had evolved for: eluding a nearby predator.
The study, carried out in Zambia, showed that individual birds chose backgrounds that enhanced their camouflage to the visual systems of their main predators — being better matched to their chosen backgrounds than to other places nearby.
Focusing on just one aspect of lawlessness — sexual predation — the study has found that twice to three times as many sexual predators are flocking to the boom towns as to nearby tourist, ranching and farming communities.
Paleoanthropologist Christine Steininger, at the nearby Swartkrans site, explains that the area's abundance of fossils may be due to predators, such as ancestors of today's leopards, dragging their kills up trees.
Type 2 theta is comparatively rare in unanesthetized rats: it may be seen briefly when an animal is preparing to make a movement but hasn't yet executed it, but has only been reported for extended periods in animals that are in a state of frozen immobility because of the nearby presence of a predator such as a cat or ferret (Sainsbury et al., 1987).
This summons nearby chickadees to congregate and then to «harass the predator — to drive it out of the area so it can't sneak up on them later,» Templeton explains.
A trail of slime could give plants a clue that a predator was nearby.
Working with staff at the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, fifth graders from the East Palo Alto Charter School track predators of the clapper rail, an endangered bird, in a nearby salt marsh.
Merely removing cats, as in catch - and - kill, creates an abrupt habitat void, soon filled by cats coming from other nearby habitats, rather than by native predators, who typically have less than half the fecundity of cats.
Like nearby Shark Point the area is covered with small fish sheltering from currents and avoiding predators — you may see larger jacks or trevallies darting into the reef trying to grab a mouthful of smaller reef fish.
When sheep flock together, in order to protect the collective, the strong end up in the middle of the flock; the old, infirm and weak end up on the outside of the flock, leaving them easy pickin's for any predators who may be nearby.