Sentence examples for become generalist from inspiring English sources

Preferred prey often are highly fecund birds or mammals (e.g., rabbits or pigs) and when preferred prey are abundant golden eagles are specialists on them, when preferred prey are rare, they become generalist foragers and readily hunt alternative prey, including carnivores [15].

When animals forage in groups, joining the food discoveries of others who are specialized on exploiting different food sources will broaden the range of food types each individual can consume [15], while it permits foragers to maintain their foraging specialization and thus a higher foraging efficiency than if they would have to become generalist foragers (the 'skill pool effect'; [16]).

However, all else being equal, one would expect that species evolve to become generalists if associated costs are sufficiently low and in so doing they ecologically exclude more specialised species (Dennis et al. 2011 Loxdale et al. 2011).

However, testing the idea that cooperation allows animals to become generalists that thrive in diverse environments an idea referred to as the 'social conquest hypothesis' is difficult.

Selective pressures would therefore favour two different, opposite evolutionary processes: parasites should become generalists or evolve more efficient behaviours to find hosts.

In the spring and summer, division of labor is used to maximize growth rate and resource accumulation, while during the winter, worker survivorship through the poor season is paramount, and bees become generalists.

Evolutionary theory predicts that the pressure for parasites to specialize on one host or to become generalists on a wide range of hosts is driven by the diversity or temporal variability of the host's population and by genetic trade-offs in the adaptation to different hosts.

Protoeukaryotes became generalist predators.

Given this evolutionary scenario, it is easy to imagine how the ancestors of dry-land terrestrial snail-feeding lineages like Trypetoptera Tetanocera phyllophora and T. kerteszi used the shoreline as a stepping-stone environment facilitating a gradual movement to dry-land habitats where they became generalist predators of land snails.

At the same time, Pitchfork has grown broader and become proudly generalist, sometimes almost mainstream.

I think in order to be a fully rounded person you have to learn to be a pro at one thing, but then you can become a generalist.