Sentences with phrase «prey through»

As I chased my wounded prey through the forest I was washed over with a sense of power and control.

Stalking your prey through busy streets and quiet rooftops is an incredibly tense experience, and while there's certainly balance issues and problems with it all, it's some of the most rewarding and equally frustrating multiplayer I've ever played.

The OurPets Catty Whack and the Pounce House are two toys the company has that mimic prey through their random movements and that are OurPets» best - sellers.

They were originally bred to track prey through either scent or sight.

Most predators, including cats, track prey through scent.

This sport allows dogs to scent prey through tunnels, thus allowing them to engage in their natural instincts in a more appropriate way than digging in your flower beds.

Most of us that have shared a home with cats, have heard those chattering / chirping / clicking sounds that are made most usually when a cat spies potential prey through a closed window.

No surprise they're now stalking their prey through Facebook and other social media.

In the not too distant future, the earth has been overrun by mysterious, but extremely dangerous and powerful creatures that can only track their prey through sound.

Instead of exhausting their prey through a long pursuit, the cats ambushed prey at a short distance and immobilized them using their massive forelimbs before killing the prey with precisely positioned bites, the researchers said.

«Researchers seek to improve welfare in captive birds of prey through olfactory enrichment.»

For the first time, researchers are exploring ways to improve welfare in captive birds of prey through olfactory enrichment - or using scent cues to alleviate boredom and encourage species - appropriate behavior.

Humpback whales commonly feed on large prey shoals by accelerating to high speeds and «lunging» at their prey, engulfing a large volume of water and filtering out the prey through their filter feeders.

Whatever the case, the researchers assert, «we suspect that exploitation of these cues is common among large animals that track moving prey through water.»

Colossians 2:8... (Spoken by the Apostle Paul) Look out: perhaps there may be someone who will carry YOU off as his prey through the philosophy and empty deception according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary things of the world and not according to Christ; Mark 7:1 - 13... (Jesus was speaking) Now the Pharisees and some of the scribes that had come from Jerusalem gathered about him.

Not exact matches

For obvious reasons, no one has run human mothers through mazes or timed them running down prey to compare their pre - and post-birth performance.

An ordinary jaunt through a rote office turns into a panic - inducing creep; «Prey» revels in fear of the unknown.

To accomplish this task, virtual kidnappers hack into a person's email and other accounts, then follow their prey — either physically or through social media — and wait until they turn off their phones or are in a place where they would be unreachable, like at a loud concert or, more commonly, on an airline flight.

Its a sad day when our young black men do nt have the freedom to walk through certain neighborhoods without being harrased are mudered, no one has the right to just take a life just because of the color of your skin we as a people has to stand up to injustices such as this no one wants to hear the truth there is still a racial devide in America and our justice system create laws so that this kind of injustice can continue to happen rather u want to admit it are not our young black men are the prey.

In that and many other times we walked away from conflict instead of talking through it, my wife and I fell prey to the secret enemy that hides in every marriage.

Shatter said in a statement through a spokesman last week that priests» failure to report what they learn in confession «that has led sexual predators into believing that they have impunity and facilitated pedophiles preying on children and destroying their lives.»

And Tocqueville explains that the emptying out of the real contents of life through excessive individualism makes people easy prey for such despotism.

Pesticides affect arthropods either directly, via contamination or reduction of their prey, or through alterations of the micro-habitat.

I think cults also usually prey on people who are at their lowest and most vulnerable (i.e. suggestable) states, such as mothers who went through a difficult first birth in the hospital.

Learn all about farm life, explore the forest, field, and wetlands looking for tracks and signs of plants and animals that live at Drumlin Farm year - round, discover the special adaptations that make birds of prey such skilled hunters, or journey back in time to learn about growing up in New England through cooking, stories, and games.

It will come as both relief and encouragement to the millions of people either directly affected by payday lending or simply angry at the way these businesses have been able to prey on the vulnerable through staggeringly high interest rates and penalty charges.

And we know, through intimidation, violence and grooming, some of these individuals are preying on the weak, forcing conversions to Islam and spreading their warped view of the world.

In this cycle of evolutionary attack and counterattack, any genetic variants that enhance venom resistance tend to spread through the prey population, prompting tweaks to the snake venom recipe that restore its effectiveness.

Sperling says that the need to avoid predators (and pursue prey) may have driven animals into the water column above the seabed, where enhanced oxygen levels enabled them to expend energy through swimming.

This allows it to pierce the shells of armoured reptiles and to employ an unusual killing method with mammals: it bites directly through the skull of prey between the ears to deliver a fatal blow to the brain.

The animals radiate tremendous amounts of body heat through their «hot plates,» which they use to melt their tunnels in ice and to hunt their favorite prey: penguins.

While scallops can spurt through the ocean by rhythmically snapping their bivalve shells open and shut like Pac - Man, the sea creatures are filter feeders that don't need to stalk their prey.

Although many dinoflagellates can survive through photosynthesis alone, some species are able to grow twice as fast by preying on other algae — and it is this feeding mechanism that is now thought to be aided by the production of toxins.

The marine mammal may even have had short, walrus - like whiskers to better sense prey while grubbing through seafloor sediments, the researchers speculate.

The exact function of the third eyelid in cats is not completely known but it is believed to help protect a very large cornea from injury as cats move through tall grass or capture prey.

Large, two - legged meat eaters stalked through snow looking for small prey, or they hibernated.

Several lines of evidence suggest that T. rex fed using a «puncture — pull» strategy, startling its prey with an extremely powerful bite and then dragging its teeth back through flesh and bone.

In lunge feeding, whales accelerates to propel water full of prey into their enlarged mouths; they then filter the water out through the hair - like filaments of their baleens and retain the prey.

Metabolism isn't just for individual organisms: Researchers apply the term to the processes through which entire natural ecosystems acquire and maintain (or lose) resilience, such as predator - prey balance and levels of photosynthesis.

They are prey to many species, such as owls and stoats, and they alter vegetation and soil composition through their foraging activities.

In another study, cuttlefish peering through their transparent embryonic sacs developed a taste for certain prey; those that saw crabs preferred to snack on them after hatching, while those that did not chose shrimp.

By analyzing collar data for captive pumas walking or running on a treadmill, pouncing on dead prey, and going through their daily routines in a fenced yard, the researchers learned how to use the collar to figure out an animal's activity as well as its location.

Instead, the researchers speculate that the birds were responding to movements of their aquatic prey timed to the spring - neap tide cycle, a hypothesis that could be confirmed through a study jointly tracking predator and prey abundance.

Most animal species, whether they rummage through a refrigerator or stalk prey in the wild, obtain nutrients by consuming living organisms.

It doesn't get much more awesome than a 13 - meter long, seven - ton superpredator that could bite through the bones of its prey.

In particular, it has a long cochlear duct, a canal in the inner ear associated with the ability to hear the kind of low - frequency sounds that its vegetarian prey would have made as they crept through the underbrush.

Instead of using that manoeuvrability to swing themselves through the trees, the lions probably used their forelimbs when slaughtering their prey, the researchers say, though the details are still murky.

They ooze slime through pores in their skin, which they use to smother prey and evade predators.

While a mountain lion can become hungry at any time of the year, the animals would go longer and longer periods of time between making kills as the winter progressed through late spring, a time of the year when wild prey numbers are lowest.

One possibility could be that warnowiids can detect the light's orientation change as it passes through their transparent prey, showing them in which direction to hunt.