Sentences with phrase «predators and prey in»

«Understanding these separate yet overlapping species» needs is critical to managing predators and prey in small reserves, which is increasingly the scenario of the future,» WCS writes.

Cats are both predators and prey in the wild, and your indoor cat has not forgotten this.

Video screens are next to dioramas in the African Hall, detailing the field research on species conservation next to scenes of predators and prey in their native habitat.

And it managed to do what so many strident voices have not been able to do: suggest a course of action to both sides, the minority and the majority (predators and prey in «Zootopia»), without alienating either.

The film has some dark moments, especially when referring to the delicate relationship between predators and prey in this imaginary anthropomorphic universe.

Julie has conducted research on a variety of top marine predators and their prey in relation to ocean climate.

Friedkin is in his best form, studying predator and prey in many different incarnations.

«They're both predator and prey in the wild, and if you're weak or have an injury, that can be a disadvantage,» Colleran said.

Not exact matches

This may seem like some useless information when an ocean's worth of water is pushing in on them from every side, but sharks use this ability to figure out where other fish, both predators and prey, are.

In an interview on CNN's «Reliable Sources» on Sunday, former Fox News personality Tamara Holder, who settled with Fox News after an executive allegedly tried to force her to perform oral sex on him, said Murdoch and Fox News «allowed abusive predators to prey on women who just wanted to work.»

6) Selection is a filter for functionality, demonstrated both in the lab (RNA aptamers, Lenski's E.coli) and in the wild (speciation events, the Pod Mrcaru lizards, predator - prey relationships, etc, etc..)

A new day of harmony will dawn, a time when born enemies, predator and prey, will live together in peace.

And what our particular vulnerabilities are almost doesn't matter — predators always find ways to lure in their prey.

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.»

In an eco-system, many of the relations between species are those of predator and prey.

They are a good, but purely relative, value in the wonderful, constructive interplay of nature - which does indeed include the harmonic of prey and predator.

Ballack knows how to get into Mesuts head, speak highly and have expectations for a huge game, and Mesut will blend in with the background, I think he's a predator, preys on the weak.

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.

That back and forth motion that is so soothing to crying baby, however, can trigger a prey / predator reaction in your dog.

CITs also play an important role in our camp community, teaching campers games, crafts, and lessons, participating in All - Camp Gatherings, and leading the entire camp in songs, skits, and the ever - popular game, Predator / Prey.

According to Scarpino, the issues that he plans to address in his new role include Westchester's heroin and illegal drug epidemic — a situation he described as «a scourge that is destroying our youth» — as well as Internet predators, phone scams, child and elder abuse, domestic violence, and injustices against immigrants who he believes are preyed upon by people who take advantage of their fear of deportation.

In the race for survival, predators can achieve impressive strengths and speeds — but research reveals that when it comes to strategy, their prey may have the upper hand.

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.

Biomechanics of predator - prey arms race in lion, zebra, cheetah and impala.

Overall, predators with wide snouts and relatively large, robust skulls, such as crocodiles and orcas, are built to resist the stresses of grabbing and holding sizable, struggling prey, the team reports today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

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.

«Ants stomp, termites tiptoe: Predator detection by a cryptic prey: Learning how termites extract and synthesize a specific sound / vibration signal amidst a cacophony of other sounds could lead to advances in technologies based on acoustic signatures.»

The jaguar is a largely solitary, stalk - and - ambush predator, and is opportunistic in prey selection.

Dr Booth said studying the relationships between predators and prey, and the interactions between different predators that hunt the same prey, were important in ecological research.

That artistic gap may be due to differences in the way they hunted, suggests a University of California, Davis, expert on predator - prey relations and their impacts on the evolution of behavior.

A new Journal of Wildlife Management study conducted in South Africa has found that black - backed jackals, a similar species to coyotes and dingoes, prefer to eat livestock rather than similar - sized wild prey, which has important consequences for livestock husbandry and the management of predators.

The Cambrian explosion, as it is called, produced arthropods with legs and compound eyes, worms with feathery gills and swift predators that could crush prey in tooth - rimmed jaws.

It is also an apex and keystone predator, playing an important role in stabilizing ecosystems and regulating the populations of prey species.

Johnson sees a similar pattern in nature as predators and prey continuously adapt and evolve to outdo the other.

The study «An ecological regime shift resulting from disrupted predator - prey interactions in Holocene Australia» also involved Professors Corey Bradshaw and Barry Brook from the University of Adelaide's Environment Institute and Professor Chris Johnson from the University of Tasmania.

Prey like moose and white - tailed deer are expanding in numbers and range because of logging and climate change, which in turn increases predator numbers (e.g. wolves).

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.

The resulting videos contained over 4 terabytes of data, which Sheng and his colleagues crunched to compare the swimming behaviors of predator and prey species in the presence of different toxin levels.

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.

These social moms are more docile than other spiders — they are less responsive to prey in their webs and more fearful in simulated predator attacks — but this mellow attitude comes with a cost.

Frogs and toads also play an important role, serving as both prey and predator, in wetland ecosystems and are considered indicators of environmental health.

While in the larvae stage, the Nematostella fall prey to larger fish but once mature, they become predators themselves, catching shrimp and small fish with their venomous tentacles.

For example, the removal of a large predator could allow a medium - sized predator to increase in numbers and eat its smaller mammal and bird prey into extinction.

Rolf O. Peterson (1944 ---RRB- Peterson helms the world's longest - running study of the predator - prey relationship in the wild, between wolves and moose on Isle Royale in the middle of Lake Superior.

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 morIn 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 morin which species make life easier for each other), nutrient dynamics and more.

Predator Friendly, a company in Big Timber, Montana, was created to help market wool from ranches that do not kill the coyotes, mountain lions and bears that prey on sheep and lambs.

Long Yu of Hubei University in China and his team have shown that the spider Phrynarachne ceylonica «s foul smell may help it attract prey and deter predators.

Each strain of phage is highly targeted and has evolved to home in on specific bacteria, which means a precise match between prey and predator is necessary for any phage - based treatment to be effective.

Slimonia acuminata may have had the range of motion to strike large predators and prey, researchers report online April 18 in American Naturalist.