Sentence examples for grabbing prey from inspiring English sources
Lions and sharks have sharp canine teeth for grabbing prey in flight.
"It appears that white sharks work on a strategy of grabbing prey, usually swinging it in its mouth, holding it for a while, and then oftentimes letting go and circling the area," Burgess explained.
"You can grab prey and you can chew it; you can do a lot of things".
"When something touches their feet they may snap shut and grab prey".
Their large incisor teeth are used like forceps to grab prey; the upper pair is hooked, and the lower pair extends forward.
New research suggests that an East Asian spider, Cyclosa octotuberculata, can learn which sector of its web is most likely to snare prey and can harness that knowledge to grab prey more efficiently.
When eagles grab fish, they sweep their legs backward, which lets them swoop down, grab prey, and keep moving without having to stop and hover.
A narrow skull, long muscular neck and flesh-grabbing teeth all facilitate plunging head-first deep into a seal's breathing hole or birth lair to grab prey.
In steeply banked beaches off Península Valdés, Argentina, and the Crozet Islands, killer whales feed on South American sea lions and southern elephant seals in shallow water, even beaching temporarily to grab prey before wriggling back to the sea.
Hedgehogs use their acute sense of smell to locate food, grabbing active prey with the mouth as they root around in leaf litter and among plant roots.
It will then pounce, grabbing its prey with its sharp, retractable claws.
