Sentence examples for detection of prey from inspiring English sources

But the structure, which may assist with the detection of prey and predators, was missing from snakes that live in water or above ground.

The hearing of crocodiles is involved not only in the detection of prey and enemies but also in their social behaviour; males roar or bellow to either threaten other males or to attract females.

These perching head movement patterns may increase the detection of prey by providing depth cues through motion parallax [50].

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) detection of prey DNA has proven effective when applied to both sacrificed invertebrate predators [3] [5] and scats from vertebrate predators [6] [8].

The shark SOa and stingray SO and BUC contain short canals located anterior to the mouth for detection of prey at close distance.

The predators' rapid detection of prey scents suggests that, like the acoustic and visual signals studied so far, the use of olfactory signals will expose individuals to predator mediated selection pressures.

Furthermore, we hope be able to resolve deep sea squids in the lower half of the water column using frequency differencing in combination with single target detection of large prey targets.

A long-term, collective diel adaptation in free-ranging odontocetes' biosonar source levels and spectral content either as an adjustment for larger detection distances of prey or to overcome diel changes in ambient sound was discussed.

However, crypsis can impose various restrictions and opportunity costs on animals, including being limited to one or a few background types, and restrictions on movement that is known to facilitate detection of cryptic prey that would otherwise be hard to detect when stationary.

Here, we present new polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays for the detection of twelve prey taxa common in Central European forest soils.

As a result, various kinds of animals are observed to perform an adaptive switching between intensive search mode triggered by the detection of a prey within patches with high resource density, and an extensive search between these areas.