Sentences with phrase «predator and prey living»

At its heart, the film is a classic oil - and - water buddy comedy but set against a unique, animals - only fantasy world where predator and prey live in harmony.

Not exact matches

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..

Isaiah prophesies a king anointed by the Spirit who will bring righteousness and establish a peaceable realm where predator and prey, oppressed and oppressor, live together harmoniously.

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.

Shatter said in a statement through a spokesman last week that priests» failure to report what they learn in confession «that has led sexual predators into believing that they have impunity and facilitated pedophiles preying on children and destroying their lives.»

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).

Apparent death, as it is scientifically called, is an involuntary physiological response similar to fainting that causes the opossum to appear and smell like a dead or dying animal, thereby deterring predators who generally prefer live prey.

They think the ancient species, Chimerarachne yingi, lived in tropical forests and had a long tail that it may have used to sense prey and predators.

In their food - web modeling, Sahasrabudhe and Motter have used accepted ecological models of predator - prey relationships, but a more elaborate representation of an ecosystem would also include parasitism, seed dispersal, competition, mutualisms (in which species make life easier for each other), nutrient dynamics and more.

«What this tells us about their lives and complex strategies for survival, such as the highly variable techniques for prey exploitation, as well as predator avoidance and protection of carcasses for food, significantly diverges from what we might expect from this extinct species,» continues Nowell.

Seriema at the deepest branch of Australaves could be considered to belong to a raptorial taxon because they kill vertebrate prey (94) and are the sole living relatives of the extinct giant «terror birds,» apex predators during the Paleogene (95, 96).

Mangrove rivulus, which can live out of the water for extended periods of time (days or weeks, as long as the conditions are moist), uses its specialised jumping technique when water has low oxygen concentrations or high levels of hydrogen sulphide, or to escape predators and search for terrestrial prey such as crickets.

The fish also did things that could lead to life - shortening events — like failing to take usual precautions around predators and making them easier prey.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials said homeowners living in the wildland - urban interface can do their part by recognizing that wild and domestic animals in their backyards are seen as prey to wild predators.

New techniques should help: Success can be increased when captive animals are reared by members of their own species, when they are exposed to the predators and prey they will come in contact with, and when they are introduced to the environment they will be living in before their final release.

His research seeks to understand the forms of coevolutionary selection created by interactions between species - plants and pollinators, hosts and parasites, predators and prey - and the importance of this selection over the evolutionary history of life on Earth.

Specification points covered are: Paper 2 Topic 1 (4.5 - homeostasis and response) 4.5.1 - Homeostasis (B5.1 lesson) 4.5.3.2 - Control of blood glucose concentration (B5.1 lesson) 4.5.2.1 - Structure and function (B5.2 lesson) Required practical 7 - plan and carry out an investigation into the effect of a factor on human reaction time (B5.2 lesson) 4.5.3.1 - Human endocrine system (B5.6 lesson) 4.5.3.4 - Hormones in human reproduction (B5.10 lesson) 4.5.3.5 - Contraception (B5.11 lesson) 4.5.3.6 - The use of hormones to treat infertility (HT only)(B5.12 lesson) 4.5.3.7 - Negative feedback (HT only)(B5.13 lesson) Paper 2 topic 2 (4.6 - Inheritance, variation and evolution) 4.6.1.1 - sexual and asexual reproduction (B6.1 lesson) 4.6.1.2 - Meiosis (B6.1 lesson) 4.6.1.4 - DNA and the genome (B6.3 lesson) 4.6.1.6 - Genetic inheritance (B6.5 lesson) 4.6.1.7 - Inherited disorders (B6.6 lesson) 4.6.1.8 - Sex determination (B6.5 lesson) 4.6.2.1 - Variation (B6.9 lesson) 4.6.2.2 - Evolution (B6.10 lesson) 4.6.2.3 - Selective breeding (B6.11 lesson) 4.6.2.4 - Genetic engineering (B6.11 lesson) 4.6.3.4 - Evidence for evolution (B6.16 lesson) 4.6.3.5 - Fossils (B6.16 lesson) 4.6.3.6 - Extinction (B6.16 lesson) 4.6.3.7 - Resistant bacteria (B6.17 lesson) 4.6.4.1 - classification of living organisms (B6.18 lesson) Paper 2 topic 3 (4.7 - Ecology 4.7.1.1 - Communities (B7.1 lesson) 4.7.1.2 - Abiotic factors (B7.1 lesson) 4.7.1.3 - Biotic factors (B7.1 lesson) 4.7.1.4 — Adaptations (B7.2 lesson) 4.7.2.1 - Levels of organisation (feeding relationships + predator - prey cycles)(B7.3 lesson) 4.7.2.1 - Levels of organisation (required practical 9 - population sizes)(B7.4 lesson) 4.7.2.2 - How materials are cycled (B7.5 lesson) 4.7.3.1 - Biodiversity (B7.7 lesson) 4.7.3.6 - Maintaining Biodiversity (B7.7 lesson) 4.7.3.2 - Waste management (B7.9 lesson) 4.7.3.3 - Land use (B7.9 lesson) 4.7.3.4 - Deforestation (B7.9 lesson) 4.7.3.5 - Global warming (B7.9 lesson)

Year 4 Science Assessments Objectives covered: Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C) Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases Identify common appliances that run on electricity Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors

This story is set in the «not - so - distant future» and is about a place «where the vampire population has surged, resulting in the establishment of Coldtowns, quarantined cities of vampires and humans where predator and prey coexist in a never - ending blood party of revelry, with vlogs, live feeds, and YouTube videos constantly streaming from the endless parties at vampire mansions» (via Publishers Marketplace).

You thought life was fair, and these things shouldn't happen anymore in America, so you didn't expect to fall prey to a predator in a nice suit so easily.

«They are a significant predator of small animals, and can survive as almost solitary animals when the prey is scarce, while thriving in high density when the prey is abundant,» Beck told Life's Little Mysteries.

Feral cats forced to live outside are also the prey of many predators, including hawks and falcons (who are also bird killers)

Feral cats forced to live outside are also the prey of many predators, including hawks and falcons (who are also bird killers), coyotes, alligators, snakes and humans.

Cats have a reputation for being fearless and lethal predators, but there's a flip side to this characterization: While domestic cats who live with us still retain their hunting skills, they themselves are also prey — to dogs, urban coyotes, even birds such as hawks and owls.

Early cats were hunters that lived in the wild, and their climbing ability meant that they had somewhere to retreat to away from larger predators, plus the capability of attacking smaller prey high up in the branches.

Look for symbioses, predator / prey and other relationships between aquatic plant and animal life.

In fairness lions, leopards and cheetah deserve the focus; most of these top predators are in danger — we live in their space, we hunt them illegally and kill them when they prey on livestock.

And nobody will need to tell them that their lives are fraught, difficult and dangerous — just as no - one needs to tell the climate refugee children who today are dying of starvation and disease; rotting in refugee camps as prey for radicalizing terrorist recruiters, human traffickers, or sexual predators; or just drowning quietly somewhere in the MediterraneAnd nobody will need to tell them that their lives are fraught, difficult and dangerous — just as no - one needs to tell the climate refugee children who today are dying of starvation and disease; rotting in refugee camps as prey for radicalizing terrorist recruiters, human traffickers, or sexual predators; or just drowning quietly somewhere in the Mediterraneand dangerous — just as no - one needs to tell the climate refugee children who today are dying of starvation and disease; rotting in refugee camps as prey for radicalizing terrorist recruiters, human traffickers, or sexual predators; or just drowning quietly somewhere in the Mediterraneand disease; rotting in refugee camps as prey for radicalizing terrorist recruiters, human traffickers, or sexual predators; or just drowning quietly somewhere in the Mediterranean.

It's not funny, of course, because the victims were scammed out of their life savings, and we can all agree that predators who prey upon people when they're already down on the mat are the scummiest of the pond scum.