Sentences with phrase «predators eat»

That is, the habitat does not govern population dynamics — the carrying capacity is never strained — because predators eat the prey down to a fraction of the carrying capacity.

More predators eat more prey, causing a net inward migration that is not at all a direct effect of radiation.

Many of these predators eat flea eggs as well, which decreases the flea population before the fleas are even born.

Carbon - 14 moves up the food chain as animals eat plants and as predators eat other animals..

That plastic can then move up the food chain as seabirds, seals and other marine predators eat those fish.

That's the main finding of a study appearing May 23 in Nature Communications that analyzed the relationship between top predators on three different continents and the next - in - line predators they eat and compete with.

If you watch other predators eating a kill, these parts are often gone first.

«The frequency of one predator eating the other is really about size dynamic,» Nifong said «If a small shark swims by an alligator and the alligator feels like it can take the shark down, it will, but we also reviewed some old stories about larger sharks eating smaller alligators.»

A prey is an organism that a predator eats.

Not exact matches

Dingoes increase cattle yields, mountain lions reduce car crashes and vultures eat organic waste: like them or not, predators help humans.

so according to your logic a mutation occurred in not one but a number of these creatures and their offspring and with their «webbing» (not wings) not all of them fell out of the trees or cliffs to die and be eaten by predators?

This helped keep the animals safe at night from wandering off, getting eaten by predators, or from getting stolen, and also helped keep the family in the upper room above (If memory serves me right, Kenneth Bailey writes about this in Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels).

Imagine the billions and billions of life forms since the beginning of life just here on this planet that have suffered death or have been eaten alive by predators.

And what would the predators have eaten, but the herbivores and insectivores that had been on the ark with them.

They ate pests and garbage and alerted the camp when predators lurked nearby.

And the predators of herbivores have to eat ten kilos of herbivore to produce one kilo of their flesh.

A predator is an animal that eats other animals.

Mother elephants will eat their placenta after birth to conceal the birth from predators.

We've given them away, eaten them when they've stopped producing and lost a few to predators so we're adding some this year.

Rare Illinois Turtles Making Comeback With Help From Chicago Museum - DNAinfo.com Chicago - March 10, 2016 Twenty years of collaborative efforts between several wildlife organizations are starting to pay off for an endangered turtle hunted by poachers, run over by cars and eaten by a multitude of predators.

Animals who don't fear predators get eaten by them.

It is a master of camouflage, having evolved to look just like the plants that they live on and eat, thus hiding from predators in plain sight.

Arrows go from the prey -LCB- what gets eaten -RCB- to the predator -LCB- what does the eating -RCB-.

If your baby was left to cry it out in the wild your baby would have been eaten by a predator!

Animals eat their after birth to diminish the smell of birth from predators.

Common garter snakes, along with four other snake species, have evolved the ability to eat extremely toxic species such as the rough - skinned newt — amphibians that would kill a human predator — thanks to at least 100 million years of evolution, according to Joel McGlothlin, an assistant professor of biological sciences in the College of Science and a Fralin Life Science Institute affiliate.

While some of the fish were left alone, others were exposed to what looked like a predator — a doll version of a guppy - eating fish called a pike cichlid.

Darimont predicts other large carnivores would show similar responses because humans have effectively become the planet's apex predators — even if we often do not eat what we kill.

Researchers have discovered that the fear of predators causes flies to spend less time eating, more time being vigilant, have less sex, and produce fewer offspring

Traumatised by all that footage of baby turtles being eaten by predators?

Wood frog tadpoles aren't the only ones with a taste for blood — tadpoles of New Mexico spadefoot toads eat plants when they first hatch, but sometimes transform into voracious predators.

Here, facial shading likely evolved as a warning signal to predators: You may be able to eat me, but you'll regret it.

Without venom or camouflage, the cicadas» main defense is in numbers — they simply provide more food than predators can eat.

If more snails are eaten by predators, algae densities could increase.

Microplastic contamination may also spread from organism to organism when prey is eaten by predators.

Jackals are opportunistic predators, eating whatever prey is available, including rodents and insects.

The viceroy butterfly (pictured) is not, but evolved a copycat image of the monarch to fool predators who have learned to associate this orange - and - black - with - white - spots color scheme with the unpleasant experience of trying to eat a monarch.

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.

Unfortunately for them, their main predator, the Mexican tetra, Astyanax mexicanus, also eats up these traits.

When predators try to eat them, the dinoflagellates flash, lighting up the water.

Godbout says he's all for giving lab animals the best life possible, but he argues that — in a world where they get as much food as they want and don't have to worry about being eaten by predators — they're already living a good life.

For one, it was an older snake, and aged individuals tend to save their venom for prey rather than wasting it on predators that are too big to eat.

DRAGONFISH are fearsome deep - sea predators with giant mouths, bulging eyes and a propensity for eating bioluminescent prey.

Coyotes were eating not only cats but also other midsized predators, such as foxes.

Specifically, the researchers found that in some areas, the number of rodent - eating predators like foxes seemed to move inversely with the prevalence of Lyme disease; when those predators disappear, the disease may get a boost.

Martin Stevens from Exeter University who, along with Claire Spottiswoode from the University of Cambridge, co-led the project said: «Despite such a long history of research, ours is the first study to directly show how the degree of camouflage an individual has, to the eyes of its predators, directly affects the likelihood of it being seen and eaten in the wild.»

In nightjars, however, which conceal their eggs by remaining motionless over them when predators approached, it was the appearance of the adults that was most important for their survival: nightjars that matched the background pattern were more likely to save their eggs from being eaten.

What happens when invasive and native species are eaten by the same predator?

For example, the scrape marks could have been made when meat - eating predators, such as the mighty Acrocanthosaurus, scraped their powerful hind legs on the ground to make noise and warn other males — of either the same or a different species — to stay away, says Timothy Isles, a paleobiologist at the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom.

She suspects that there's a limit to how much food a big predator can catch and eat, especially one that hibernates.