Sentences with phrase «predator hunts for food»

Children will get up close and personal with the hawk and discover how this vital predator hunts for food, nests and raise their chicks and survives from day to day.

Commonly, the hunter wolves would roll in the droppings of their prey so that the animals they hunted for food would smell themselves, and not the predator hunting them for food.

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This feature helps with movement, and so helps animals hunt for food and avoid predators.

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).

The lizards need to move quickly to hunt for food and to avoid predators, and previous research has shown that their sprint speed is strongly correlated with survival and reproductive success.

Many of these animals are fierce predators that sit atop the food web, but Laidre's team found that they are also important subsistence resources: Arctic people hunt nearly 80 % of the studied populations for food and other uses.

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We do not know why they began to crawl — perhaps they were hunting for food, fleeing a mysterious predator or doing something else entirely.

«These predators, including mountain lions, aren't «hangry» and seeking out back yards to find food, but there comes a point when a mountain lion is hungry enough that it may use back yards to hunt for food, similar to what takes place in the wild,» said Kevin Blecha, who worked on the research in conjunction with Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologists, while pursuing a graduate degree in ecology from CSU.

Cats, both pets and strays, may fool us into thinking that they depend on our food and trash for survival, but according to Alan Beck, professor of veterinary medicine and director of the Center for the Human - Animal Bond at Purdue University, they're expert predators with adaptable hunting behaviors.

Wolves have larger paws and their legs are longer so they can run much faster than dogs, an asset for animals that need to hunt down their food and / or escape predators.

Along the way, they will have to hunt for food, master fire, fend off fierce predators, craft weapons and tools partly from the bones of slain beasts and face off against other tribes to conquer Oros.