Sentence examples for approaching threats from inspiring English sources

And while tomatoes may not be able to scream, as L. Ron Hubbard once claimed, some plants do emit compounds that warn their compatriots of approaching threats: the botanical equivalent of a smoke signal.

Given how many sirens city dwellers are subject to over the course of an average day, and the attention-fracturing tension induced by loud sounds of every sort, it's easy to see how sensitivity to noise, once an early warning system for approaching threats, has become a threat in itself.

The hearing on Wednesday played out against the approaching threat from Hurricane Sandy.

Although optimality models predict the distance at which an animal should initiate vigilance and flight, many studies have shown that animals generally flee soon after detecting an approaching threat, supporting the 'flush early and avoid the risk' (FEAR) hypothesis.

Based on individually identifiable animals and a standardized flight initiation protocol, we measured the distance at which a deer detected an approaching threat, and the distance at which it subsequently initiated flight.

Studies on sex differences have shown that women tend to exhibit a larger looming bias than men (Grassi, 2010; Schiff & Oldak, 1990) and these findings are likely due to sex differences in the ability to deal with approaching threat (e.g. physical strength) rather than any differences in auditory spatial localization.

However, the perceived level of both risk (in terms of landscape openness and proximity to human infrastructure) and reward (in terms of habitat quality) influenced the time it took for a deer to detect an approaching threat, and the subsequent time for which the threat was tolerated prior to flight.

Centurion made urgent signals to the Indiamen, warning them of the approaching threat.

In their own turn, D'Erlon and Gazan could not agree on how to deal with the approaching threat.

Transforming visual information of the approaching threat into motor commands for eyelid closure likely depends on the posterior parietal cortex and connected areas in the premotor cortex.

Other components of an encounter, such as direction of an approaching threat in relation to location of a shelter [ 14] or access to a refuge [ 11] may also dictate the response of the prey.