Sentences with phrase «presence of prey»

As long as there is movement or any signal, there is a possibility of the presence of a prey.

This dog breed has a great nose which allows them to track or smell the presence of prey, tenacity to keep chasing until it corners its prey, and a good voice that makes it easy to attract your attention as it corners or «trees» the prey.

Indeed, yappy terriers and vocal tree dogs were selectively bred to be noisy so to alert hunters about the presence of prey so the owner could take action.

In the wild, whiskers can alert a cat to the presence of prey, potential enemies, or the location of his pack.

Typically, your puppy's smell sense alerts him to the presence of prey, and he tracks game by following the scent trail.

The sparks appeared only in the presence of prey.

As the clam's tentacles began to sense the presence of prey, their flash rate increased significantly.

Though the exact purpose of blue whale vocalizations remains elusive, researchers think the whales may use calls to maintain distance between one another, facilitate mating or signal the presence of prey, among other purposes.

Not exact matches

While he indicates that his is an attempt to resolve the classical problem for theology of how to account for God's unique presence in Jesus without displacing any aspect of Jesus» humanity, in the course of that attempt he generates so many additional problems that he appears to have succeeded at little more than compounding and thus falling prey to the very problem which he seeks to resolve.

Unless you have experienced the power and presence of God, you become an easy prey to Satan and he eventually deceive you.

Ecological research already carried out in these national parks and surrounding coffee plantations has shown the presence of more than 300 species of birds, (including endemic species, threatened forest specialists and birds of prey e.g. Black Hawk - Eagle Spizaetus tyrannus), 31 mammals species (some of them are endangered species such as the ocelot, cacomistle and Mexican porcupine), 26 reptile species, and 326 tree and bush species.

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.

Their mere presence — perhaps their scent on the wind and tracks in the dirt — creates a perpetual state of apprehension in their prey.

The mere presence of filter feeders as large as Tamisiocaris suggests that Cambrian ecosystems were much more productive than previously recognized, the researchers contend: As seen in modern species as diverse as fish, sharks, and whales, large animals can successfully exploit small prey only when they can be sieved from the environment in great concentrations.

In the recent studies, researchers showed that this behavior happens for extensive periods of time at or near the seafloor, that it occurs in the presence of concentrations of sand lance (a preferred prey fish), and that the behavior is accompanied by the expansion of the animal's ventral (throat) pleats.

The authors suspect that the presence of big teeth in fossil sperm whales may suggest that they were feeding on large prey, perhaps marine mammals such as seals and other smaller whales as opposed to modern sperm whales, which feed primarily on squid, hardly using their teeth for chewing.

Conspicuous warning signals — visual, auditory or mixed — help prey to deter predators by signaling the presence of defenses (chemical, mechanical, etc).

Many species hunt for prey by scanning the water column above them, looking for any telltale silhouettes that might signal the presence of their next meal.

As training progresses, a good trainer will train the dog to discount the presence of equipment and view the person as the prey object.

They need to clean themselves after consuming their kill because they need to eliminate the scent and blood from their body so as to not alert future prey of their presence.

For example, pointing (raising a paw in attending to prey) is part of the wolf hunting ethogram that we have intensified in gundogs to alert handlers to the presence of game.

Plus, their presence removes the challenge of a hunter finding his prey without help.

Through her manipulation of these found images, Simmons works to construct a new narrative based on the presence of gain that operates within the shared experiences of desire and fear and between predator and prey.

Many experts attribute this large number of fatalities to unique aspects of wind power development in northern California, such as the unusually large number of turbines (over 5,000), the type of turbines in the region, and the presence of abundant raptor prey in the area.