Sentences with phrase «on small crustaceans»

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These aspirin - size cave scavengers feed on whatever they can get their claws on — usually smaller crustaceans.

The concentrations are lethal to a small, shrimp - like crustacean called Hyalella azteca - a species commonly used in laboratories to investigate the effects of pesticides on invertebrates necessary for healthy rivers.

Most sea sponges feed on single - celled organisms, which they filter from water, but some are more voracious, catching small crustaceans.

The small crustaceans, which dine on parasites that infest large, predatory fish, use the dance to attract customers.

These small crustaceans are important organisms of the zooplankton, particularly as food for baleen whales, Mantas, whale sharks, Crabeater seals and other seals, and a few seabird species that feed almost exclusively on them.

Whilst the Atlantic cod hunts different copepods, sea butterflies and also small fish, and therefore enjoys a varied diet, the Polar cod only has its sights set on certain types of crustaceans.

It will feed on small fish and crustaceans as well as anything else it can find.

If you are feeding your pup any crustacean for the first time, give them a very small quantity and keep an eye on them for a few hours to be on the safe side.

While the crustaceans most easily seen are the larger forms, like the commercial lobster, myriads of small ones live in the marine waters feeding on debris and microscopic marine life.

They feed mainly on small shrimp - like crustaceans commonly known as krill, other zooplankton and small schooling fish.

UB graduate student Matthew Ballinger helps to prepare sediment cores from a small lake on the Alaskan tundra that contains a new species of the crustacean Eurycercus.

[1] They feed mainly on aquatic invertebrates such as crustaceans and insect larvae, and will also eat small fish.