Sentence examples for before the prey from inspiring English sources

When the long, flat, spatulate bill touches prey it snaps shut, before the prey is pulled from the water and swallowed.

The jaws cannot move sideways to chew the food; instead, the crocodile's head is tossed to move the prey to the back of the mouth before the prey is swallowed whole.

The third strategy is digestive and commences degradation of prey tissues internally, even before the prey has been engulfed.

Birds of the Old World bee eater family (Meropidae) and a few other birds are able to eat bees because the horny beak protects them from being stung while the insect is being killed and because they have evolved behavioral mechanisms for removing the stinger (usually by wiping the insect on a perch) before swallowing the prey.

He also likes to speak of fishhooks: irritating injustices or incompetencies that dangle before angry prey; the prey takes the bait and is pulled into an angry frame of mind that can hurt him.

Sea snakes prey on small marine animals, and the powerful toxins in the venom quickly immobilize the prey before it can swim off.

They have the ability to sense when something hits their underwater web, and they dash out to paralyze the prey before pulling it into the bell, Dr. Seymour said.

In some pick ups, Portia first slowly uses its forelegs to manipulate the prey before biting.

When attacking sea turtles, including the huge Leatherback sea turtle which weighs about 385 kg on average, as they try to nest on beaches, the jaguar will bite at the head, often beheading the prey, before dragging it off to eat.

For instance, it has been observed that some phytoplankton such as Dinoflagellates paralyze the prey before ingestion [ 34, 43, 44].

In order to make the hunt successful several lions have to work together (about 4-7) [ 36, 37, 47, 48], get close to the prey before starting the attack 30-500 m) [ 36, 37, 46, 49] and cut off its escape routes by encircling the prey from different points and filling the roles of "centers" and "wings" [ 36, 37].