Sentences with phrase «small crustaceans»

At the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, for example, marine biologist Steven Haddock recently discovered that certain jellyfish can not manufacture their own luciferin and that they probably get it from eating small crustaceans.

The killer shrimp is not as bad as its reputation: Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have discovered that the amphipod crustacean, which is native to the Ponto - Caspian region, is not a true predator and only plays an indirect role in the massive species extinction of small crustaceans in native waters.

Some spiders, midges and small crustaceans called amphipods also cannibalize their mates.

Here we can hunt for small crustaceans, octopus or cuttlefish.

The small chick is then fed nightly for 35 days by both parents, who regurgitate partially digested food (krill and other small crustaceans) carried in a special gular pouch, often referred to as a sublingual pouch.

A: Krill oil comes from small crustaceans, not fatty fish, and typically contains more EPA.

Its harplike vanes are covered with hooks that snare small crustaceans.

These aspirin - size cave scavengers feed on whatever they can get their claws on — usually smaller crustaceans.

Most sea sponges feed on single - celled organisms, which they filter from water, but some are more voracious, catching small crustaceans.

One, living in a Mediterranean underwater cave, traps small crustaceans with the sharp, glassy spikes jutting from its body, then surrounds them with its cells and digests them.

Stauroteuthis feeds on small crustaceans that are attracted to light.

Reduced ability to maintain a protective shell among free - swimming zooplankton (zooplankton include «animal plankton», mainly small crustaceans and fish larvae, and form the base of most marine food webs)

The teeth are modified to crush small crustaceans and molluscs.

They filters out small crustaceans (1/2 inch (1.2 cm) long shrimp - like crustaceans called amphipods, krill, copepods, etc.), plankton, and mollusks (including squid and fish) from the ocean sediment.

With Halloween fast approaching, this is a good time to learn about a relatively small crustacean known as the Halloween crab for its colorful appearance.

They also eat small crustaceans and insects, but only during the day.

They corresponded with each other, and we know that Steenstrup lent Darwin cirripedes — a family of small crustaceans.

To start, it won't just be the whales that will be devoured, but any other smaller crustaceans that choose to ignore the potential impact a derivatives market can have on an underlying commodity.

The copepod, Calanus finmarchicus, is a small crustacean that lives in the North Atlantic, where it is an important food source for whales, birds and fish alike.

Just last year, Iliffe traveled to Christmas Island, a remote spot in the Indian Ocean, for a high - profile, National Geographic - funded expedition to discover life in the island's underwater caves, and in particular to find a small crustacean called a remipede.

Snails and small crustaceans can flourish in high - CO2 conditions, providing plenty of prey for those small fish.

Many animals, including sea urchins and some small crustaceans, use this mechanism to sense their surroundings.

Though the mass extinction wiped out staggeringly high numbers of species, they barely touched the overall «functional» diversity — how each species makes a living, be it filtering phytoplankton or eating small crustaceans, burrowing or clamping onto rocks.

(An analysis of museum - preserved specimens hints that G. bonplandi eats small crustaceans and juvenile squid, possibly even those of its own species.)

We had also sent down an autonomous lander with the sub that had bait attached, and that bait was starting to attract animals — mostly amphipods and isopods, which are small crustaceans.

The small crustaceans, which dine on parasites that infest large, predatory fish, use the dance to attract customers.

Preliminary data obtained by the scientists for krill suggest that the figure for these small crustaceans will also lie close to those found for other species.

The main survivors in Lake Victoria have been cichlid species feeding on plants, snails, plankton or small crustaceans and very small fish.

These small crustaceans are important organisms of the zooplankton, particularly as food for baleen whales, Mantas, whale sharks, Crabeater seals and other seals, and a few seabird species that feed almost exclusively on them.

Meanwhile, «shrimp» is a term used to refer to any small crustacean.

I will describe our recent efforts to establish a small crustacean, Parhyale hawaiensis, as an experimental model for studying regeneration.

After filling the pools with water, researchers put in the ingredients commonly found in wetlands, including leaf litter, bacteria, fungi, algae, snails, small clams, tadpoles, and amphipods (small crustaceans, commonly referred to as scuds).

The law is expected to regulate commercial activities in waters near Antarctica as China's fishing of Antarctic krill - small crustaceans that are a critical food for the continent's penguins and other creatures - has in the past raised some concerns in the Western media.

Krill are small crustaceans that you will find in the waters around the antarctic.

Many of them prefer to eat small crustaceans, worms and insect larvae.

At the outset, only a few gallons of the small crustacean were collected weekly by members of the San Francisco Aquarium Society and fed to the aquarium fishes.

Diet consists of small crustaceans, including tiny mysid shrimp, as well as worms and other invertebrates.

The complicated ecosystem of the reef supplies food and shelter to a huge variety of baitfish and small crustaceans that, in turn, attract larger predators.

Australian delicacies to look out for are stone - baked damper bread, Anzac biscuits and the Moreton Bay Bug; a smaller crustacean relative of the lobster with firm flesh and a distinctive flavour.

We can also observe the small crustaceans like crabs, shrimp, lobsters, as well as it is a place you can get back in diving.

It eats smaller (biotic) animals and plants — small Crustaceans, Algae, Annelid Worms, Shrimp, Zooplankton, Copepods, Amphipods, and insects.

The site gets its name from the vertical fissures that the coral colonies make, forming «chimneys» which scuba divers can examine close up for moray eels and macro marine life in the form of molluscs, squat lobsters and small crustaceans.

The meeting in Baltimore will explore issues from managing big science projects down south to assessing the impact of growing fisheries in Antarctic waters for krill, the small crustaceans that are a core ingredient in the food web there.

In the Southern Hemisphere, most baleen whale species eat small crustaceans (krill) almost exclusively;