Sentences with phrase «other predators»

Dogs usually dig out of boredom, to find out inhabited prey, to get warmth in cold and cool environment in hot weather or to keep their food safe from other predators.

If you watch other predators eating a kill, these parts are often gone first.

But in their analysis, they have modified the mutual competition by saying that the two competing predators might well exist side by side, if only they are prey for other predators.

Little boys and other predators finished off more when they were four or five inches long.

They control other predators, and by doing so, they regulate species with which they never directly interact.

Bigger, more adaptable, and more aggressive toward other predators, they simply drove out the native species.

Up to 100 photo - sensitive cells form a retina, which is positioned so any bird, fish, or other predator up to 2 meters away registers as an image there.

The researchers report that people catch adult fish at a rate up to 14 times other predators.

This lesson is aimed at younger Primary years looking at how and why dinosaurs were different to each other and how they survived other predators.

Moreover, scientifically - based knowledge of the success of cat or other predator removal is incomplete.

There, they wait for an unsuspecting insect to get caught, while remaining hidden from other predators themselves.

The lab results suggest that one group of spiders could reward mimicry whereas the other penalizes it, but it's not yet clear how important those particular spiders are to the mimics in their natural habitat — especially compared with other predators such as birds.

PsyBlog quotes Peter K. Jonason, one of the researchers who documented the correlation, to explain the phenomenon: «Those who scored highly on the Dark Triad traits [narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy] are, like many other predators such as lions and scorpions, creatures of the night.

Rattlesnakes add to the diversity of our wildlife and are important members of our ecosystem by eating rodents, other reptiles, and insects, and are in turn eaten by other predators

They have not developed the means or tools necessary to attack and kill or eat the tapirs like other predators.

30 Presence of other predator species complicates matters.

Unlike many other predators in the region, many of the seals (leopard, crabeater, Ross and Weddell seals) were never directly harvested by humans; so that their population trajectories track the impacts of biological and environmental changes in this ecosystem.

Previous vulture studies linked declines in several species across the continent to mass poisoning, usually by farmers trying to kill other predators, or poachers deliberately trying to kill vultures for fear they might give away their location.

And the «teacher toads» can also help to slow that toad invasion, so will save many other predators.

With most other predators now out of the picture, early sharks and ray - finned fish like Fouldenia used their crushing jaws to dine on these spiny, stalked and hard - shelled creatures.

Hyenas are suspects because they travel long distances and mix with other predators at kills.

The invasion could be devastating not only for native snails, but for other predators who rely on them.

The lizards seem to know this and are more likely to use it on dogs than on other predators.

The abundance was due not to more plant - specific herbivores but to many types of spiders and other predators coming to feast on the insects.

Other predators include lynx Lynx lynx, wolf Canis lupus, red fox Vulpes vulpes and at least two species of mustelids.

They don't scare away other predators that prey on geladas — the researchers saw feral dogs kill numerous monkeys during the study.

But regardless of whether the presence of more wolves helps or hurts other predators, that effect is likely dampened when wolf populations are fragmented.

In viverrids like the African civet (Civettictis civetta), highly striped and color - flecked faces belonged to species that were more likely to fight back against other predators, indicating the markings might serve as a warning.

«We learned from the Cuban iguana that head - starting [taking hatchlings, raising them in captivity, then releasing them later when they were less prone to predation by feral cats and other predators] is an effective tool for boosting iguana numbers in the wild.

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.

Although content, this cheetah mother was still on high alert since she had a cub nearby and her kill could attract other predators.

As you can also see in the data from field studies, it turns out that these «rules» that predators have to be prey for other predators means that there are far more species in the middle part of the food chain than at the bottom and the top.

However, although the timing of the shift seems to rule out that gigantism arose as a defense against megasharks and other predators prowling oceans at the time, she says, «I think there is enough uncertainty to remain somewhat skeptical» that the defense argument is dead.

I was also measuring predation risk, to see whether wolves and other predators influence elk movements by causing them to avoid areas with escape impediments, such as downed wood and thick brush.

Warming temperatures may both speed up the development of the insects and increase the rate at which other predators — such as the larval beetle — eat them.

When snow leopards and other predators manage to enter herder's corrals, the results can be devastating — but with teamwork, building supplies, and a couple of days» time, the problem can be fixed, and conflicts avoided.

When a cat, weasel or other predator threatens a chickadee, the little bird makes a distinctive chick - a-dee-dee-dee.

She also put other predators in the industry on notice, promising, «We're not going to allow you to get away with it any longer.»

In Wyoming, sheepherders protect their flocks from wolves, coyotes and other predators using Great Pyrenees / Akbash mix dogs.

Also, predators rarely eat other predators so if a coyote has killed your dog you will find the body.

Newsome recommends that monitoring continue after dingoes are allowed to roam the park for at least five years, or longer if prolonged dry periods impede their ability to recolonize or enhance their ability to suppress other predators.

Feeding in almost total darkness, elephant seals use their large eyes and the bioluminescence of some prey, such as octopus and squid, to find food where other predators would not even be able to see.

Many get snapped up by birds and other predators whilst they are wiggling through the sand towards the water.

Reef fish life is abundant and the deep walls and brisk currents at some of the sites attract grey reef, hammerhead and thresher sharks, and other predator fish such as mackerel, barracuda and jacks.

The yearly wildebeest migration in Tanzania's Serengeti and Kenya's Masai Mara just might be called «the greatest animal show on earth», when ten of thousands of wildebeest and zebras migrate to greener pastures as the seasons change, with lions, cheetahs and other predators following them and waiting for an opportunity to kill the weak.

Combined with NECA's always detailed sculpt, it will look just as striking next to your other video game tribute figures as it will alongside other Predator figures.