Sentences with phrase «which predators and prey»

Not exact matches

«The media is no longer predator and prey, which I think should be the relationship, but a remora, attached at the bottom looking for crumbs coming off the shark,» he said.

And much larger prey animals, such as pigs, which are also unclean animals, so there could only have been one pair, would be needed for the larger predators.

They are a good, but purely relative, value in the wonderful, constructive interplay of nature - which does indeed include the harmonic of prey and predator.

With the new reconstruction, paleontologists can now analyze the trackways and better determine things such as the sizes, motions, and walking speeds of the dinosaurs that left the footprints — which, in turn, may reveal whether an ancient predator really «chased» its prey along an ancient shoreline or merely ambled by at about the same time.

A new Journal of Wildlife Management study conducted in South Africa has found that black - backed jackals, a similar species to coyotes and dingoes, prefer to eat livestock rather than similar - sized wild prey, which has important consequences for livestock husbandry and the management of predators.

Prey like moose and white - tailed deer are expanding in numbers and range because of logging and climate change, which in turn increases predator numbers (e.g. wolves).

The resulting videos contained over 4 terabytes of data, which Sheng and his colleagues crunched to compare the swimming behaviors of predator and prey species in the presence of different toxin levels.

Parawixia, however, seems to be a highly specialised predator which adjusts its web size and the time of spinning according to the availability of specific prey.

In their food - web modeling, Sahasrabudhe and Motter have used accepted ecological models of predator - prey relationships, but a more elaborate representation of an ecosystem would also include parasitism, seed dispersal, competition, mutualisms (in which species make life easier for each other), nutrient dynamics and more.

Each strain of phage is highly targeted and has evolved to home in on specific bacteria, which means a precise match between prey and predator is necessary for any phage - based treatment to be effective.

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.

If the venoms don't evolve quickly enough, then the predators or prey on which they're intended to act will evolve a countermeasure and render the toxic advantage moot.

Mangrove rivulus, which can live out of the water for extended periods of time (days or weeks, as long as the conditions are moist), uses its specialised jumping technique when water has low oxygen concentrations or high levels of hydrogen sulphide, or to escape predators and search for terrestrial prey such as crickets.

From an evolutionary standpoint, this capability has been a valuable survival asset as an early - warning system to attract your attention — whether to detect prey, predator or mate (all of which usually move, unlike stones and trees).

«With predator and prey co-evolution, you can see oscillations in which there are lots of prey around even when there are many predators, or lots of predators around even when there are very few prey,» noted Michael Cortez, a postdoctoral fellow in the Weitz lab and first author of the paper.

Its mouth is surrounded by numerous stinging tentacles, which release a neurotoxin that can stun prey and help repel predators.

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

Carolin Haug, LMU Munich, said: «T. brandonensis was probably an actively hunting predator, which caught the prey with its front claws and crushed it into smaller pieces with the protrusions nearer its mouthparts.»

They feed on the bottom of the food chain — on single - celled plankton, which larger fish can not eat — and then they become prey for all sorts of upper - level predators like tuna, sea bass and halibut as well as seabirds and marine mammals.

Like modern gray wolves, dire wolves — which «are not made - up beasts for «Game of Thrones,»» Brown said — were predators that caught and killed prey with their jaws.

Many protozoa have contractile vacuoles, which collect and expel excess water, and extrusomes, which expel material used to deflect predators or capture prey.

If seen from this perspective, a free online dating site looks like a small jungle in which some are the prey and others the predators.

From this point of view, a free online dating site resembles to a small jungle in which some are the prey and others the predators.

Even worse is the nature footage Besson cuts in during the initial stages of Lucy's «recruitment,» which features natural predators and their prey.

But we have, again, that annoying way of presenting relationships as a war zone, and men as predators and women as prey, which may resonate for some but which is hardly the only way to see the equation.

Hawke (and the audience) feel like a predator stalking its prey, which is desperately trying to get away, and I find that really interesting.

Year 4 Science Assessments Objectives covered: Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C) Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases Identify common appliances that run on electricity Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors

FACT: Trap, Neuter, & Release (TNR) is an even bigger abject failure because these man - made ecological disasters can not be trapped faster than they exponentially breed out of control, and they also continue the cruelly annihilate all native wildlife (from the smallest of prey up to the top predators that are starved to death), and the cats continue to spread many deadly diseases that they carry today — FOR WHICH THERE ARE NO VACCINES AGAINST THEM.

They are also at lower risk to flee and trigger chasing, which will allow a social — rather than a predator - prey — relationship to develop.

Cats and dogs can hide illness well, which is a good thing if they're wild animals, as they need to trick predators who tend to prey on sick, injured, or weak animals into believing that they are healthy.

For example, dogs, which are predator animals, behave differently than prey animals, like rabbits and horses, which tend to hide their pain.

Mesopredator release is a general phenomenon which has been demonstrated in other top predator - mesopredator - prey systems, not just coyote - cat - bird, and in most of them the removal of the top predator causes a cascade leading to localized extinction of certain prey species.

FACT: Trap, Neuter, & Re-Abandon (TNR) is an even bigger abject failure because these man - made ecological disasters can not be trapped faster than they exponentially breed out of control, and they also continue to cruelly annihilate all native wildlife (from the smallest of prey up to the top predators that are starved to death), and the cats continue to spread many deadly diseases that they carry today — FOR WHICH THERE ARE NO VACCINES AGAINST THEM.

Despite decades of our extermination efforts (trapping, shooting, snaring, poisoning), coyotes have expanded their range threefold since the mid 1800's, largely as a result of our extensive forest clearing and eradication of wolves and cougars, which has left a significant void in the predator / prey hierarchy.

Because cats have evolved the fecundity of a prey species, they can usually reoccupy a habitat from which they have been extirpated faster than rival predators can arrive and breed up to the vacated carrying capacity.

This mode is best played on the Souk map, which is a veritable warren of overhangs and tented areas especially designed to obscure predator and prey alike!

Opening the front flap reveals actual graphics from the game, specifically a pixelated peek at the trophy case aboard the Predator ship, which in addition to several human skull - and - spine sets houses the skull of the Yautja's second favorite prey — a Xenomorph warrior.

The 1,000 years that have passed from our time to Aloy's have seen many changes and stories unfold, not least the origin of the machines themselves (which Guerrilla promises the game will reveal), why there doesn't appear to be any predator and prey relationship between the machines (but they do fight, so that's curious), and the burying of structures in the earth that may or may not be human in origin.

A master of the hunt, the Predator grants the player a suite of exotic weaponry and equipment with which to stalk its unknowing prey.

Among the many predators of hyraxes is Verreaux's Eagle (Aquila verreauxii), which feeds mainly on hyraxes (Symes and Kruger 2012) and is among the most diet - specialized raptor (bird of prey).

Canestrari said they know there are predators in the area like cats, and birds of prey like raptors, but they aren't sure which are the biggest threat to crows.

«Understanding these separate yet overlapping species» needs is critical to managing predators and prey in small reserves, which is increasingly the scenario of the future,» WCS writes.

I would like to see our money spent on other issues, such as catching online predators that prey on the weak and children, building new Jails to support the ever demanding prison population increases, more money to our police forces accross the nation, education, healthcare, infostructure, issues like that, which are important, not on this copyright law which isnt an important issue and never really has been.