Sentences with phrase «predators and prey during»
By precisely measuring the movements of predators and prey during hunts, researchers have now modelled the optimum strategy of both hunter and hunted, unpacking the subtle details of this evolutionary arms race.
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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).
Terrestrial predators can modulate the energy used for prey capture to maximize efficiency, but diving animals face the conflicting metabolic demands of energy intake and the minimization of oxygen depletion during a breath hold.
Even worse is the nature footage Besson cuts in during the initial stages of Lucy's «recruitment,» which features natural predators and their prey.
The film creates its own, more politically evolved version of Kipling's literary ecosystem, with its ancient animal beliefs and practices, such as predators and prey declaring a «water truce» during a drought so that they can all drink unmolested from a parched watering hole.