Sentences with phrase «prey items brought»
«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]
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By bringing its tail around toward its head, an electric eel can double the strength of the electric pulse it sends out into the water, allowing it to demobilize larger prey items, the study found.
[16] And Churcher and Lawton's yearlong «English Village» study (involving approximately 70 cats and 1,090 documented prey items) found that that 8.6 percent of cats brought home no prey [17](though the authors don't specify the percentage of cats that returned no birds).
And while it's true that cats are unlikely to return home with all they prey they catch, it's equally true that they will bring home items they didn't kill.