Sentences with phrase «prey items»

An ideal ferret diet is whole prey items such as baby chicks and mice.

In 24 traps containing only pups, they found killed mice and other prey items outside the traps, apparently left by the parents for their young.

But «they can be important prey items at some times and places» for fish and other creatures.

Two or three appropriately sized prey items weekly are generally adequate.

Officials claimed that humans themselves might start to be prey items for the beasts.

Only as many prey items as can be consumed in a 20 - minute period should be introduced at any time.

Your job is to teach them that toys are now prey items and not your hands, arms and legs.

A cat has limited prey items that he must find, chase, catch, and kill for his survival.

Some people believe they can avoid this problem by feeding freshwater prey items to marine predators.

This allows them to pursue two prey items simultaneously and makes them look a bit like a drunk stumbling home after a long night.

Of course the errors are even more significant when one inflated figure is multiplied by another — as when Lepczyk et al. [6] multiply the average number of prey items returned by the average number of outdoor cats per owner.

«Early jawless vertebrates were filter feeders — sucking in small prey items from the water.

The idea of having a pet herp has been shunned by many parents, spouses and even enthusiasts themselves due to the longstanding expectation that herp pets would require live prey items as the bulk of the diet.

It's possible that squid clutching large prey items — such as their kin — are less able to swim away from the vehicle, meaning that they'd be counted more often than squid eating lighter meals, he says.

In another experiment, he counts the neonates» tongue flicks to gauge their interest in the scents of various potential prey items.

Suction feeding likely enabled early whales to move from a tooth - based feeding style to filter - feeding, by allowing them to capture smaller prey items than teeth alone could handle,» Dr Marx says.

Furthermore all observations have determined that thinner sea ice benefits ringed seals, the polar bears main prey item.

As a result, «a wide range of proportions of available prey items» could account for the lions» isotope ratios, including «many or no people, even during the period before they became maneaters».

There are many types of feeder prey items available today, including mealworms, superworms, waxworms, silkworms, fruit flies, springtails, flour beetles, and a handful of prolific roach species.

«Over 4,000 years they [walrus] appear to have covered a whole gamut of different prey items and prey locations,» Casey Clark of the University of Alaska Fairbanks explained.

This species is capable of constricting multiple prey items with ease.

«It will be particularly interesting to see whether the fish ingest these microplastics directly as mistaken prey items, or whether they ingest them through eating prey species, which have previously ingested the microplastics,» says Wieczorek.

But electric eels don't actually double the amount of electricity they produce when they go after large prey; they just direct the charges from both ends of their bodies to one specific area, which makes the charge feel more powerful to unfortunate prey items.

Endowed with three electricity - producing organs, E. electricus can send a pulse, or volley, of high - voltage electricity through the water toward prey items.

«Previous research suggested that plant climbing might be a way for salamanders to access additional prey items, like aphids and leaf hoppers, that are not available on the ground,» said Grant Connette, a biologist who helped carry out the study while a graduate student in the Division of Biological Sciences at MU.

But these animals were already pretty smart prey items to begin with,» says Silcox.

As a final measure of possible environmental influence, we assessed the rate of resource depletion through tool - assisted foraging by recording the number of prey items consumed during daily foraging events.

They believe that the tooth - bearing plates «were ideally suited for holding on to prey, such as insects or smaller tetrapods, may have facilitated a method of swallowing prey items via retraction of the eyeballs into the mouth, as some amphibians do today.

The fact that you do not appreciate the gift, or you release it is possibly viewed as you being a rather wayward and inept kitten though many owners give their cat some cat food to compensate for the lost prey item.

This breed has webbed feet and is known for being particularly strong swimmers that will even dive when looking for a perceived prey item.

«the simple average number of animals brought home is not a useful measure of central tendency because of the skewed frequency distribution of the numbers of prey items brought home...» [2]

As a sighthound, the Irish wolfhound has never quite lost its tendency to chase prey items.

Before dogs became so domesticated they fed naturally on anything that they could scavenge and as a result, they received the majority of their dietary needs from single prey items.

These may be pellets, canned moist diets, freeze - dried diets, powdered formulas designed to be mixed with water or juice, or even canned whole prey items ranging from crickets to shrimp and fish.

With un-weaned prey items, do not be alarmed if the snake eats dinner without the formality of constricting the prey.

as opposed to a staple prey item.

Today, crickets represent just one of the many invertebrate prey items commercially produced and sold on massive levels specifically for the pet trade.

Mealworms of the Tenibro genus can be stored for weeks or even months in a state of brumation in a standard household refrigerator, making them an ideal prey item to stock.

Some gutloads are in the form of moist bites that provide both food and water to prospective prey items.

Pelican breeding success is largely determined by the availability of their primary prey items, northern anchovies (Engraulis mordax) and Pacific sardines (Sagax sarinops), which during the breeding season comprise nearly their whole diet.

[12][19] Octopoteuthis deletron squid are a common prey item, one study found this species in the stomachs of 58 % of individuals sampled off the coast of California.

From the blog EarthSky likens this behavior of food sharing to that occasionally seen in our closest feline companions: «Domesticated cats that have a tendency to drop prey items at their owner's feet.

It is not known whether the birds take the caterpillar to actually resemble a snake, or are frightened by the sudden change of a familiar prey item into an unusual and boldly - patterned shape.

The food seems more like what a live prey item would be if your little carnivore caught it.

Where today we feed our dog's scientifically balanced kibble, it used to be that dogs would eat whole prey items, meat, bones, organs and the contents of their stomachs.