Sentence examples for evolved to feed from inspiring English sources

No edible specifically evolved to feed people.

They have not evolved to feed on trees they have never encountered before.

Studying the ancient bear could help scientists understand how the giant panda evolved to feed on hard bamboo stems, Dr. Abella said.

This allowed the team to compare the effects of the same microbes when fed a Malawian diet, or an American one, or on sugars from breast milk that have specifically evolved to feed beneficial microbes.

Some bees have evolved to feed on the nectar of a single type of flower; for example, Andrena florea, a small European bee, relies exclusively on the delicate white blossoms of bryony plants.

Unlike some of Florida's other pesky invasive species, like pythons, this is not such a worry, though; native species that evolved to feed on deer dung can always rely on that plentiful niche for survival.

These species have evolved to hunt, feed, breed, and give birth at night.

To illustrate this concept we focus on Baculoviridae, a family of invertebrate viruses that have evolved to modify the feeding behaviour of their lepidopteran hosts and liquefy their cadavers as part of the course of infection.

The width of the heads of some Australian snakes has even rapidly evolved to favor those that cannot feed upon the toad — for the snakes' own safety.

However, drosophilids in the genus Scaptomyza (fig. 1) have evolved the ability to feed on living angiosperm leaves, which activate inducible defenses in response to feeding damage (Hackman 1959; Whiteman et al. 2011).

Insects have evolved many strategies to feed on plants including associations with mutualistic symbionts, which can be important mediators of direct and indirect interactions between herbivorous insects and their host plants.