Sentences with phrase «predators and prey at»

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«The media is no longer predator and prey, which I think should be the relationship, but a remora, attached at the bottom looking for crumbs coming off the shark,» he said.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.»

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.

Richard Coss, a psychology professor and expert on the evolution of predator — prey relationships at the University of California, Davis, studied the behavior of 185 people who were attacked by mountain lions (aka pumas or cougars) between 1890 and 2000 in the U.S. and Canada.

They were prey, predator, and competitor all at once.

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).

The non-monophyly of the birds of prey at the deepest branches of the Australaves and Afroaves radiations suggests that the common ancestor of core landbirds may have been an apex predator, followed by two losses of the raptorial trait.

Natural selection favors predators that are better at capturing prey, prey that have better defenses, and individuals that compete better against other species.

But over successive generations, the prey clumped more and more in response to the predator, until the predator's success rate became quite low — similar to what is seen in the wild (compare the predator's ability to pick off two prey — white dots disappearing — in the early seconds of the video versus at the end), the team reports online this week in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

«The mites are too small to be useful prey for the spiders and are not large enough to be a potential predator,» says Robert Pape at the University of Arizona.

For example, in a predator - prey system, the predator has to first find, then capture, and finally subdue its victims, and a victim can deploy defensive traits at each stage of the attack.»

The highly anticipated first trailer for Shane Black «s 20th Century Fox flick The Predator dropped this morning, giving us our first look at the title character and the humans who are about to become his prey.

Rabbit and fox have to get over their stereotypes of each other's «kind» to crack this case and save a city whose fabric rips at the seams when the whole predator - prey peace breaks down.

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.

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).

They are also at lower risk to flee and trigger chasing, which will allow a social — rather than a predator - prey — relationship to develop.

Cats are both predator and prey, so if you find that there are lots of dogs out at one time of day, pick another time that is more mellow in order to reduce chance encounters with dogs.

With people feeding these non-native predators, they have an unnatural advantage in nature, and are thus appearing at frequency rates 10 - 100 times greater than nature would allow (prey animals in a balanced ecosystem greatly outnumber the native predators).

Many exotic pets are prey animals and they are experts at masking their feelings and hiding illnesses, so as not to become a target for a predator.

He observed instances of prey and predator animals bonding at zoos and other environments.

We argue that the behavioural capacity of feral cats to undertake long - distance excursions to exploit transient hunting opportunities results in significantly higher total predator pressure on prey, and helps to explain how low - density cat populations could have large impacts on small - mammal abundance at landscape scales.

My interest in birds of prey began at the age of 11 when a school outing to CROW (Centre for Rehabilitation of Wildlife) in Durban left me marvelling at the beauty and strength of these magnificent predators of the air.

In this process, a predator, like the golden eagle, feeds on at least two prey, for example, the island fox and feral pigs.

In the next game you will experience a globetrotting Agent 47 at the prime of his career — the apex predator stalking his prey across the world, with the support of his long - term handler Diana Burnwood and the whole of the ICA.

At night, beware the Infected as they grow in strength and even more lethal nocturnal predators leave their nests to feed on their prey.

Opening the front flap reveals actual graphics from the game, specifically a pixelated peek at the trophy case aboard the Predator ship, which in addition to several human skull - and - spine sets houses the skull of the Yautja's second favorite prey — a Xenomorph warrior.

This is a game where you're an apex predator silently stalking your prey, while at the same time savoring every second of the hunt and the adrenaline rush it brings.

The fact that players are at the same time the predator and the prey of other players also creates a very intense and unique experience.

In Vampire The Masquerade: We Eat Blood you're a young artist who wakes up at night to find you're no longer human... but exactly what are you and why are you so ravenously hungry for blood?!? Told entirely through an innovate mobile messaging perspective, We Eat Blood is a sharp, mature, and terrifying story about your first nights as unwilling predator and prey.

At night, the hunter becomes the prey as the infected grow in strength and aggression - but even more lethal are the nocturnal, inhuman predators that leave their nests to feed.

Unfortunately, sexual predators exist in every industry, and some unscrupulous doctors prey on victims while at their most - vulnerable.