Sentence examples for form of prey from inspiring English sources

Using network-based diffusion analysis, the authors argue that the whales in this group learned the behavior socially from other whales in the group over a period of 27 years in response to a change in the primary form of prey.

We suggest this phenomenon may represent a mechanism whereby cnidarians can expel excess symbiotic algae when an alternative form of nutrition is available in the form of prey.

In a mixed habitat, with few host plants available, a kairomone signal from the herbivore could be masked by the non-host volatiles, which may represent a form of prey escape.

In spiders, nuptial gifts in the form of prey are restricted to a few species from two families belonging to the superfamily Lycosoidea: Pisauridae and Trechaleidae [ 10- 17].

Because spidroins are costly, highly expressed proteins [ 37, 38], resource abundance in the form of prey availability may also stimulate aciniform spidroin production in Argiope to prepare for resource scarcity [ 39, 40].

Among bats, gleaning behaviour is a less common form of prey detection than hawking with only about a third of species regularly employing this strategy (Arlettaz et al., 2001).

To me, that's a form of preying on the weak and exploiting people at their most emotionally vulnerable, but if you believe in the afterlife and psychic powers, I can understand how the experience would be comforting - after all, who doesn't want to know that a loved family member, living or dead, is doing okay?

Perhaps spider bodies contain some crucial nutrients which are scarcer in other forms of prey.

Apostatic selection, the primary hypothesis for maintenance of colour polymorphism in cryptic animals, proposes that visual predators focus on common forms of prey, resulting in higher survival of rare forms.

Although they take their name from a dog-like Chinese demon (Tiangou), the tengu were originally thought to take the forms of birds of prey, and they are traditionally depicted with both human and avian characteristics.

For the sake of simplicity we assume that the cost function is linear (although we note that in practice this may be depart from linearity in the sense that acquiring a certain biomass of resources in the form of five small prey items may be more expensive than acquiring the same biomass in the form of a single large prey item).