Sentence examples for flying prey from inspiring English sources

It gleans fruits and invertebrates, and may sally to capture flying prey.

The drone films the birds in action while flying prey to them, suspended on a string.

Unlike modern bats, though, their bodies lacked the telltale bony structures that would permit them to echolocate flying prey.

The tree swifts are somewhat less specialized and are fully capable of perching; in fact, their usual foraging method involves launching after flying prey from the vantage point of a high perch.

Titi monkeys will also eat small insects (ants, moths, butterflies, and their cocoons), spiders, and can catch flying prey if it comes close to them.

Furthermore, the coupling of flight and echolocation mechanisms puts a lower limit on echolocation frequencies, and therefore an upper limit to body size, necessary to detect and catch small flying prey [41], [68].

Similar patterns were observed for N. aristolochioides, while N. jacquelinae was observed to trap essentially flying preys of bigger sizes [14].

Ostrom suggested that feathers may have evolved as elaborations of basic fringed reptilian scales, an idea generally accepted at the time, and that natural selection may have favoured featherlike scales that first helped to beat down flying insect prey and later acquired an aerodynamic function.

For instance, orb weaving spiders spin significantly stronger and tougher dragline silk on average compared to other taxa, which may reflect the importance of the radial threads of orb webs in stopping the tremendous kinetic energy of flying insect prey (Table 1).

In the foreground, people abandoned their vehicles and ran for their lives, while, above them, others fell prey to flying glow-in-the-dark jellyfish.

These flies prey on smaller insects and are found around damp, marshy places.