Sentences with phrase «prey animals like»

Prey animals like rodents, rabbits, and birds contain 65 - 70 % water.

In the wild, your cat's entire diet would consist of one food group: the flesh of whole prey animals like mice and birds.

The Jagdterrier (also known as German Hunt Terriers or Deutscher Jagdterriers) is a fierce and tenacious hunter capable of challenging not only common prey animals like game, wild boars, foxes, weasels, and badgers, but also dangerous prey like bobcats and cougars.

The bone fragment on the right, likely from a prey animal like reindeer, shows cut marks that may have come from a tool used to slaughter the animal.

Not exact matches

«The Red Triangle includes roughly 200 miles of coastline.But it's not the beachgoers and surfers that attract great whites to these waters.It's the rich population of other mammals like elephant seals, harbor seals, sea lions, and sea otters.Great whites prefer to prey on these animals instead of humans.

It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticize militancy in women that it is very like beasts of prey reproaching gentler animals who turn in desperate resistance when at the point of death.

Just as physics generalizes variables of movement so that they can apply not only to a human hunter and his fleeing prey, but also to stars, planets, atoms, and photons, so psychics needs to generalize such ideas as feeling, perceiving, remembering, anticipating, intending, liking and disliking, so that they can apply not only to animals, but even to the real individual constituents of the vegetable and mineral portions of nature.

Apparent death, as it is scientifically called, is an involuntary physiological response similar to fainting that causes the opossum to appear and smell like a dead or dying animal, thereby deterring predators who generally prefer live prey.

Biologist Clare Hawkins, who has captured an astonishing 43 fossa, believes the animal hunts alone, and that it stalks and rushes its prey like a cat.

Bats and other animals that rely on sounds to detect prey in the dark move their ears much like humans use their eyes to track an object of interest, making constant adjustments to their ear positions.

Group foraging in cooperative animals provides predators with advantages over prey, but for less cooperative colonial - breeding predators, like the little penguin, the benefits of group foraging are less clear due to the potential for competition between penguins.

Observing the behaviors of dangerous and cryptic predators like alligators is no easy task, so scientists used animal - borne cameras to monitor alligators capturing prey and their other activities.

The squirrel, with its eyes on the sides of its head like all prey animals, sits on the air conditioner and stares at me — sideways with just one big eye, until I put out some peanuts.

Like footprints in the snow, the scent of blood can guide meat - hunting animals to wounded prey.

Circular pupils are generally found on animals that chase down their prey, such as cheetahs, or on taller ambush predators like lions and tigers.

«Sponges didn't seem like animals — they didn't go seeking prey, didn't have 4 legs — or 10 legs.

Like, for every 500 prey animals there can only be one tiger.

In addition, camera traps recorded whether the animals» prey sources were more likely encountered in the higher housing densities or in more wild, public land areas like national forestlands.

talon The curved toenail - like claw on the foot of a bird, lizard or other predatory animal that uses these claws to snag prey and tear into its tissues.

Pacific fisher: A cat - like relative of minks and otters, the fisher is the only animal that regularly preys on porcupines.

With colorful names like the evening fieldslug, cinnamon juga, Chelan mountainsnail and masked duskysnail, these species recycle nutrients, filter water and provide important prey for birds, amphibians and other animals.

For example, the scientists think the sharks traveled in their mixed - species groups for most of the day for protection against tiger sharks, which are much larger and often prey on their smaller peers (much as herding animals like gazelles stay together for protection against hungry lions).

These magnificent animals are facing unprecedented threats as a warming climate and loss of their sea ice habitat make it more difficult for the bears to hunt prey like seals and find dens for their cubs.

... except the fermentation / mammalian species point: wild carnivores, and some domestics like cats, eat the gut of their prey — their prey are mostly vegetarian animals; these organs have a large amount of fermented, pre-digested vegetable matter — wild grains, seeds, grasses, root and woody fibers.

We've covered not treating girls like prey animals, but don't let that scare you off from a little touching.

Since this is a G - rated film, there are no close - ups of prey animals being torn to ribbons by predators like the snow leopard, but you do see some shots of the large animals feeding on carcasses, having chased down the slower members of the unfortunate prey.

When the film plays out the murder, we see Sevigny naked and trembling, ready to kill like an animal hunting for its prey.

Hazumi means «spring up» or «bound» like an animal leaping onto its prey according to Mazda, which implies (and will hopefully deliver) a tight and sporty driving experience.

The back of my stomach went cold when it slowed and then stopped, watching me across the tombstones like a sheet - steel animal of prey.

Playtime is an opportunity for your indoor cat to pretend that he is hunting for prey in the great outdoors, so when you're dangling a toy in front of your cat, move it around like a prey animal would move.

They are very playful and have a high prey drive, so watch them around smaller animals like rabbits, hamsters, birds and even cats.

Like any other canine breed, American Pit Bull Terriers range on the spectrum of intra-species aggression, which refers to their prey drive towards other animals.

For someone willing to approach training with good humor, prepared for the ongoing vigilance required to supervise and exercise a dog with a very high prey drive, and who's charmed by a dog with a distinctly cat - like personality, the sweet, spirited Greyhound can make a wonderful companion animal and family pet.

Since most cats are eating kibble instead of whole prey animals, they often miss out on the benefits of the indigestible animal parts like hair, bones and connective tissues.

I would be keen to know more about their prey drive, and how well they get on with cats or other small animals like chickens?

Like all hunting dogs, it has a strong prey instinct and should not be trusted with small animals.

Pins can have a very high prey drive, and despite my experience with my rats and Pins, I do not recommend this breed for a household with small animals like rats, mice, guinea pigs, rabbits (especially).

Like many sled dogs, they have a strong prey drive and are not suited around small animals.

Thus, dogs will see prey like animals and chase them, and even grab, shake, and kill them.

While cats sometimes might be the top predators in their environments, some of the animals they prey on are also predators, like rats.

They will generally socialize well with other dogs, but be careful with small animals like cats or ferrets as the prey drive of this breed may kick in.

Rabbits, like most prey animals, are very good at hiding illness.

They usually get along well with other dogs when properly introduced and socialized but, like most terriers, have strong prey instinct and can't be trusted with small animals.

Like most prey animals, they spend very little of this time as babies (called kits).

For example, dogs, which are predator animals, behave differently than prey animals, like rabbits and horses, which tend to hide their pain.

Kittens, like many predatory animals, have to be taught to hunt, kill and eat their prey.

Malachi devours his prey and Shiloh will drag them around all day like a stuffed animal or bring them to me and set them at the door.

Mother Nature matched the nutrients in whole prey animals to perfectly meet a carnivore's dietary needs since predatory animals like wolves and wildcats, consume the whole animal.

Canines in the wild like wolves and coyotes will often scavenge the waste from other animals if they can not hunt prey.

While Dr. Barchas may be technically correct that no research has «proven» that prey animals are an «ideal» feline diet, a prey - like diet — with high moisture and low carbohydrates — is just about the best we humans can provide for our cats.