Sentences with phrase «when wild prey»

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.

Not exact matches

The study shows that farmers need to protect their livestock from jackals even when similarly sized wild prey (small antelopes) are available because of their preference for sheep and goats.

Cats thrive on diets that are high in protein, moderate in fat, and incredibly low in carbohydrates; wild cats only eat carbohydrates when they consume the plant matter in their prey's stomachs (and, occasionally, when they chew on grass to settle their upset tummies).

In the wild, puppies and kits fall as prey to other carnivores and it is up to the mother to protect the litter as best she can, especially when she is off on hunting forages.

Training dogs against situational distractions such as wild animals is a little more challenging, particularly when working with dogs with a strong prey drive.

In the wild, cats hunt and eat meat from a wide variety of prey so it's not surprising domesticated felines share that love of diversity when it comes to their food.

In the wild the only time they eat grains or starches is when they eat the stomach contents of the prey they have caught.

Some experts believe that a dog's taste for grass goes back to the days when a wild canid would eat the stomach contents of its prey (usually plants like grass and leaves).

Another theory is that wild dogs would roll in animal carcasses or the droppings from herbivorous animals, in order to disguise their own smell from prey when hunting.

That's why we have organs like heart and lung in our food because that is what a dog or cat eats when it catches its prey in the wild.

That's why we have organs like heart and lung in our food because that is what a dog or cat eats when they catch their prey in the wild.

One theory suggests that dogs and cats used to get greens in the wild when hunting smaller grass - eating prey, but lack this green nutrition in domesticated diets.

Most cats will eat their main meals at dawn and dusk, when they would normally be hunting and catching prey in the wild, so those are often the best times to feed them.

Some people say it's a predatory activity that traces back to when dogs were wild and had to tear apart their prey in order to eat.

This is another instinct from their days in the wild when chattering preceded their swift kill bite of small prey.

In the wild, cats teeth are kept clean when biting into tough muscle meat, bone and biting through skin or rind of the prey.

When you think of handheld multiplayer experiences in which you and your friends hunt large and dangerous prey with a variety of wild weapons, one game immediately comes to mind: Monster Hunter.