Sentence examples for disable prey from inspiring English sources

Meerkats teach young how to handle difficult prey by bringing them progressively less disabled prey to deal with, but mothers judge how much to disable prey by the age of the young as revealed by the timbre of their calls, rather than direct assessment of their ability to handle prey (Thornton and McAuliffe 2006).

They are best known for their raptorial appendages – pointed or clubbed – which they use to make lightning-fast attacks that disable prey animals by spearing or blunt trauma.

"Point" is a suitable label, because these artifacts bear relatively sharp tips that were fashioned for the purpose of impaling and disabling prey, and were themselves hafted as the pointed tips of shaft weapons like spears and arrows.

Some centipedes can deliver venom to instantly disable their prey.

Bonham is an all-American, mountain-man version of Kwai Chang Caine of "Kung Fu"; he never uses a gun to disable his prey.

Krait venoms disable their prey's nervous system.

Thornton and McAuliffe observed that the adults gradually did less to disable the prey as the pups grew older.

For example, the adults may kill or disable dangerous prey before bringing their catch to the pups, keeping them out of danger while they practise how to deal with poisonous arachnids.

Often, to avoid injury, killer whales disable their prey before killing and eating it.

Adults feed young pups in response to their begging calls, killing or disabling the prey and removing the stingers of scorpions.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.06774.001 Venomous animals like tarantulas or scorpions inject their prey with toxins to disable them.