Sentence examples for facing predation from inspiring English sources

A population in the Sierra de Gredos mountain range is facing predation by otters and increased competition from the frog Rana perezi.

We have presented empirical evidence that tadpoles of the wood frog, Rana sylvatica, when facing predation by dragonfly larvae, experience a higher probability of mortality as they approach metamorphic climax.

Based on these considerations, we predicted that P. mexicana females should alter their mate choice behavior when facing predation risk by piscivorous cichlids; specifically, females should associate with small rather than large males when a piscine predator is around to minimize their own risk of being attacked.

All animals potentially face predation events.

However, they still face predation at the nest from many sources ranging from mammals to nest-robbing bees (Wille 1983; Suka and Inoue 1993; Roubik 2006).

Furthermore, prey can face predators of the same locomotory type and body size as themselves, resulting in a uniform distribution of predation risk with no place for the prey to hide.

That is, predators which face strong predation pressure and use "eyes" as a proxy for potential danger are expected to generalize among patterns that could be real eyes of a predator (cf. Janzen et al. 2010).

(Heading up to take a look, we passed some decrepit former offices, one of which had a windowed door on which the words "American Model Agency" was stenciled, inspiring visions of aspiring chorines facing the predations of oily manipulators).

Because they naturally don't face much predation, they have not evolved ways to successfully avoid humans or reproduce fast enough to make up for human-induced losses.

Males, more active and mobile than females in most rodent species, typically face higher predation rates [ 31, 32].

It is likely that there is further mortality in the field where eggs face additional predation risks that are not present in the lab.