Sentence examples for components of prey from inspiring English sources

Although small birds were more abundant on Successions than Reclamations, our results did not suggest that numbers of this main prey were of higher importance for the sparrowhawks than habitat components of prey availability.

It remains to be seen what role the neurons projecting from AF7 to the nMLF and hindbrain might play in the various components of prey capture behavior.

The key components of this prey-handling sequence are the beating of the corpse mid-water (in order to release the ink) and the scraping of the cuttlefish's dorsal body surface along the sand (in order to release the cuttlebone).

During more than 400 million years of evolution, scorpions have developed an efficient venom arsenal, composed of extremely diverse active components, to prey captures and deter competitors.

Our results identify a specific pretectal, retinorecipient region as a key component of the prey detection circuit.

Neuroethologist Heather Eisthen of Michigan State University in East Lansing agrees that the defense may be widespread, adding that it may serve as a new model for examining the neurological component of predator-prey interactions.

Consequently, predation risk is a highly variable component in the life of prey.

Determining fine-scale movement patterns of predators and their prey is an important component of studying predator-prey interactions and evaluating the likely consequences of these interactions for the predator, prey and overall community [1].

By performing standard time series analyses on prey time series, independently generated from complex, yet controllable agent-based simulations in a natural landscape [ 30], we have shown that changes in the direct and delayed components of the two-dimensional autoregressive structure of prey time series portray specifically changes in predator-prey interactions.

Latencies and activity levels are behavioural components of conspicuousness of a potential prey animal to a potential predator; they therefore measure an antipredatory component on the boldness-shyness axis.

However, the specific component(s) of snake venom allowing for successful recovery of prey and further diversification of prey handling behaviors has not been identified.