Sentences with phrase «of predators and prey»

«It's almost an argument for rewilding places to make sure that the natural balance of predators and prey are there,» Schmitz says.

Shifts in the spatial distribution and extent of sea ice will alter the spatial overlap of predators and their prey.

The group will discuss adaptations and behaviors of predators and prey, as well as what happens when links are broken in a food chain.

As civilization swiftly crumbles into a primal landscape of predators and prey, two people flee in search of sanctuary.

Video screens are next to dioramas in the African Hall, detailing the field research on species conservation next to scenes of predators and prey in their native habitat.

Then envision midnight - movie touches mixed into the filmmaking: flash cuts of predators and prey enhancing otherwise typical scenes of plans being hatched; monologues about brain capacity and the true meaning of time coupled with psychedelic visions and wormholes and explanatory objects materializing from thin air.

Populations of predators and their prey usually follow predictable cycles.

They then used the earlier observations of the changing abundances of the three pairs of predators and prey — leveraging data sets collected by other scientists — to show how the models would apply.

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.

By precisely measuring the movements of predators and prey during hunts, researchers have now modelled the optimum strategy of both hunter and hunted, unpacking the subtle details of this evolutionary arms race.

In an eco-system, many of the relations between species are those of predator and prey.

While you love a good game of predator and prey with laser tag, you don't always want to schedule a session at your neighborhood fun zone every

The resulting videos contained over 4 terabytes of data, which Sheng and his colleagues crunched to compare the swimming behaviors of predator and prey species in the presence of different toxin levels.

Research suggests that the behavior of both predator and prey may be affected by ocean acidification.

Here Mills et al. model the falcon's cognition using guidance laws inspired by theory and experiment, and embody this in a physics - based simulation of predator and prey flight.

In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator and prey.

Deviations tells how these peoples cope with the reality of being sentient creatures forced to play the roles of predator and prey, and how several of them try to thwart long - established conventions in the hope of overcoming their biological imperative.

Document the interactions of predator and prey; zoom in on birdlife from marabou storks to rainbow - hued lovebirds; and test your wildlife photography skills on elephants, rhinos, cheetahs, and more.

By confusing the roles of predator and prey, the coyote keeps things interesting, reminding us we're not the only beings with a sense of humor.

How do the dynamics of predator and prey change due to the edge effects of road cuts or hard packed snow roads in the winter months?

Left to their own time - tested devices, all ecosystems will naturally ebb and flow towards a sustainable balance of predator and prey.

Not exact matches

This may seem like some useless information when an ocean's worth of water is pushing in on them from every side, but sharks use this ability to figure out where other fish, both predators and prey, are.

The reason for Australia's third - ranking iron ore miner traditionally being seen more as prey than predator is a function of its once sky - high debt levels, uncertainty about its ore grade, and a belief that at some point Forrest would be tempted to cash out of the company he created.

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..

A new day of harmony will dawn, a time when born enemies, predator and prey, will live together in peace.

Much of the history of biological life is built on opportunism; and, as evidenced in predator - prey relations, this opportunism is cruel, at least from the point of view of the victims.

They are a good, but purely relative, value in the wonderful, constructive interplay of nature - which does indeed include the harmonic of prey and predator.

He purposefully designed a system that ensures the suffering and death of all his creatures, parasite and host, predator and prey.

On Jan. 26 from 5 - 6 p.m. at Crowder County Park in Apex, learn about predator - prey relationships, the food chain, skulls and teeth of mammals, and play some games to test your senses.

The experiment, part of the «Living Robots» project, simulated a predator and pray scenario where some robots searched for food (prey) and others hunted for them (predators).

According to Scarpino, the issues that he plans to address in his new role include Westchester's heroin and illegal drug epidemic — a situation he described as «a scourge that is destroying our youth» — as well as Internet predators, phone scams, child and elder abuse, domestic violence, and injustices against immigrants who he believes are preyed upon by people who take advantage of their fear of deportation.

STICKY SITUATION At the La Brea Tar Pits in today's Los Angeles, mastodons, dire wolves, saber - toothed cats and thousands of other creatures — prey and predators — were trapped and later excavated.

Putting numbers on the athletic powers of wild predators and prey «enables you to understand the ecosystem» Wilson says.

Lending credence to these computer results, the actual collar records showed a lot of running at merely moderate speeds by both predator and prey.

However, if, as we showed, the scent is sufficient to continue population decline, then even if the predators move on to other prey, and their scent disappears, this is unimportant for the survival of the population that is at risk whose numbers and reproductive ability have been critically affected by the passing smell of death.»

Biomechanics of predator - prey arms race in lion, zebra, cheetah and impala.

Results of the analysis may make it much easier for paleontologists to infer the prey preferences and feeding styles of ancient aquatic creatures, especially if they have similar skull proportions to modern - day predators.

Overall, predators with wide snouts and relatively large, robust skulls, such as crocodiles and orcas, are built to resist the stresses of grabbing and holding sizable, struggling prey, the team reports today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

With the new reconstruction, paleontologists can now analyze the trackways and better determine things such as the sizes, motions, and walking speeds of the dinosaurs that left the footprints — which, in turn, may reveal whether an ancient predator really «chased» its prey along an ancient shoreline or merely ambled by at about the same time.

«Ants stomp, termites tiptoe: Predator detection by a cryptic prey: Learning how termites extract and synthesize a specific sound / vibration signal amidst a cacophony of other sounds could lead to advances in technologies based on acoustic signatures.»

That artistic gap may be due to differences in the way they hunted, suggests a University of California, Davis, expert on predator - prey relations and their impacts on the evolution of behavior.

A new Journal of Wildlife Management study conducted in South Africa has found that black - backed jackals, a similar species to coyotes and dingoes, prefer to eat livestock rather than similar - sized wild prey, which has important consequences for livestock husbandry and the management of predators.

«But the smaller size of coyotes appears to give them dietary flexibility to survive on a wider variety of food and prey sizes, making them less predictable predators of large prey.

It is also an apex and keystone predator, playing an important role in stabilizing ecosystems and regulating the populations of prey species.

The models included interactions and competition between predators as well as the influence of climate on vegetation and prey populations.

Because large carnivores regulate other predators and prey, exercising an influence on the ecosystem far out of proportion to their numbers, their protection and reintroduction is crucial.

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.

The study «An ecological regime shift resulting from disrupted predator - prey interactions in Holocene Australia» also involved Professors Corey Bradshaw and Barry Brook from the University of Adelaide's Environment Institute and Professor Chris Johnson from the University of Tasmania.

Prey like moose and white - tailed deer are expanding in numbers and range because of logging and climate change, which in turn increases predator numbers (e.g. wolves).

And it's an honest warning: the nudibranch incorporates chemicals from the skin of its primary prey, sea squirts, into a foul - tasting mucus that predators deplore.