Sentence examples for catching prey from inspiring English sources

They catch prey by gleaning or in short forward and upward sallies, always catching prey with an audible snap.

Back in Normandy, catching prey had been a breeze.

The most spectacular show tigers and lions catching prey.

It can function as a net for catching prey even if any element is broken.

Sensitive snouts are useful for catching prey and manipulating food, Carr and colleagues point out.

The head has hooks (curved, grasping spines) covered by a hood or thin fold of skin, which retracts when the arrowworm is catching prey.

In Unweaving the Rainbow, Richard Dawkins imagined that on the African plains our hunter-gather ancestors would have drawn maps depicting plans for catching prey.

He purchases a house with a cellar which he converts into a guest room and a van with a storage compartment, ideal for catching prey.

Increased structural complexity had variable effects on juvenile kelpfish activity levels, but enhanced their success at catching prey after detection, resulting in no net effect of structural complexity on the total number of prey captured.

These findings suggest that B. multicinctus three-finger proteins share a common evolutionary origin, and the evolution of snake venom proteins shows a tendency to diversify their functions, which may be beneficial for catching prey.

The black widow's cobweb consists of support scaffolding--a region in the middle for catching prey--and a series of silk anchor lines that hang down and snag walking insects.