Sentence examples for exploiting food from inspiring English sources

Although true wood dwellers never invade soil, and their nests have no soil connections, all other termites are basically subterranean, building their nests either in soil or with soil connections and exploiting food sources away from the nest.

The study, published last week in the journal Science, is a rare look at the complete process of what evolutionary biologists call character displacement, the change in a trait responsible for exploiting food or other resources in response to competition for the resources.

These 'stopovers' during long-distance movement appear consistent with finding and exploiting food patches.

Males need to maximize their body mass and condition to compete for females, exploiting food resources with the lowest cost/benefit ratio whenever possible [33].

Winter DVM might be of paramount importance in ecosystem dynamics and organism strategies for exploiting food sources.

Because wild raccoons are omnivores and highly opportunistic at exploiting foods they prefer, whenever available they could eat diseased or dead migratory birds from areas where subtype H5N1 viruses are enzootic.

Individuals are normally solitary and usually come together only to exploit food resources or to mate.

Also, paradoxically, as this technology has become fully exploited, food security is again becoming a concern.

However, their feeding strategies may have led them to exploit food resources across the mesopelagic epipelagic boundaries as do numerous midwater crustaceans in present-day ecosystems.

More recently, some palaeontologists have questioned this view and argued that holding their heads high was necessary for sauropods to exploit food sources at great heights, especially during food shortages.

Differences between the species in size, shape and other traits ("phenotypic traits") are adaptive, resulting in markedly different abilities to exploit food in the two environments of the lakes.