Sentences with phrase «prefer wild prey»

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While some of the captive seals seemed to prefer swallowing their prey whole, both the wild and captive animals relied heavily on their claws overall, the scientists found.

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.

This finding corroborates a 2010 global genetic study of killer whales1 and what many marine scientists suspected, based on years of studying wild orcas by tracking their movements and comparing their vocalizations, preferred prey, and social structure.

«The new environment attracted a rich fauna of large vertebrates including wild horse and red deer, two of the preferred prey species.