Sentence examples for feeding opportunities from inspiring English sources

So in working to stay in one spot, they use energy and miss out on feeding opportunities.

Woodland is one of the most important habitats for bats because it offers roosting and feeding opportunities for many species.

Restless lapwings seemed unable to settle, torn between feeding opportunities in the fields and the frosted high pastures where they will nest.

Indeed, guarding seems such a good idea (apart from the sacrifice of feeding opportunities) that even solitary animals engaged in it from time to time.

Some polar bears retreat to land, where feeding opportunities are limited, or stay on sea ice that in recent years has retreated far north of the shallow, biologically abundant outer continental shelf.

Birds that had been frog-averse in captivity were every bit as skittish toward color changes outdoors, and the high explorers when caged were similarly adept at finding new feeding opportunities far afield.

However it was unclear whether those habitat preferences also provided feeding opportunity, refuge from predation or energetic advantage.

This apparent excess must be seen in light of the likelihood that the lion's next big hunting and feeding opportunity may be days or a week away.

They look for the easiest possible feeding opportunity, rarely preying on other mammals.

More parsimoniously, an individual could witness a first encounter with a novel feeding opportunity, acquire some social information about the food resource or how to access it and from that point on develop a routine or habit that is reinforced with every reward obtained.

These would appear dark to dichromatic primates and be deceptive by making both fruits and leaves look different (lower in quality) than they actually are, resulting in decrease of the perceived window of feeding opportunity for such primates.