Sentences with phrase «predators and prey off»

The researchers found that ocean warming would be an overwhelming stressor that made food webs less efficient, neutralised the «fertilising» effect of elevated carbon dioxide and threw the fragile relationship between predators and prey off balance.

Not exact matches

«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.

In addition to attracting prey, the fish's blue - green radiance may attract mates and ward off predators.

But all bets are off if both the predator and prey species are evolving in even small ways, according to a new study published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Dougherty and colleagues had three hypotheses about why the clams flash: to attract a mate, to scare off predators, or to attract prey.

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.

Several missed attempts show off the coyote's predator skills and her prey's survival skills — until coyote spies an unsuspecting wild turkey.

As with all biological controls, the predators need to be reintroduced periodically, because they eat all the prey species and die off for lack of food.

Rabbits are a prey species and have learned to instinctively struggle to escape the jaws of a predator or cloches of a birds of trying to whisk them off the ground and carry them away.

The game play involves a mix of predator - prey relationships, espionage, animal role playing, and themed cooperative dance - offs in collaboration with bands & djs performing that night (including GDFX, who composes indie game soundtracks especially for Mark Essen).»

Simplistically, if humans do not «manage» predators — that is, kill off as many as possible — then there will be more of them, and sp they will kill more prey.