Sentence examples for escape performance from inspiring English sources
Escape performance, expressed as escape distance and escape speed, improved with age.
However, we found no relationship between sword presence or size and escape performance.
In this way, natural selection driven by predators may indirectly limit foraging efficiency and alter cascading trophic interactions by favoring traits that enhance escape performance.
We tested escape performance in this species by eliciting C-start escape responses, an instinctive escape behavior, in males with various sword lengths.
It is well known that X. helleri females prefer males with longer swords [13], but the cost of the sword in relation to escape performance seems to be negligible.
Although the enlarged gills seem to be a plastic response to the presence of predators in developmental period, they are not likely to have a defensive function, because enlarged gills, by increasing drag, might actually lower escape performance, and, moreover, might increase predation mortality by inviting the predator to attack the vulnerable head.
Such adjustments should enhance flying capabilities and again decrease predation risk by improving escape performances: low wing loading increases take-off angle as well as speed and aerial manoeuvrability [27], [52], [53].
Our results differ slightly from Royle et al. [16], who found a slight positive correlation between sword length/body depth and escape response performance.
With reputations as opera obsessives, the sisters travelled back and forth to Germany under the pretext of hearing a favourite star, interviewing Jewish families desperate to escape, attending performances and on their return carrying the families' valuables into Britain.
If his goal in leaving the corporate world was to escape stress and performance pressures, his career move was a failure.
For weeks, Pirates Coach Tommy Amaker has watched his team get by on its superior athleticism, as it escaped sloppy performances against lesser teams with victories almost on talent alone.
