Sentence examples for handle prey from inspiring English sources

The helpers taught pups how to handle prey by providing them with opportunities to do so, sometimes nudging prey to draw the pups' attention to it and sometimes retrieving live prey that tried to escape.

'Helper' meerkats teach pups how to handle prey by giving them opportunities to take on small animals while under supervision.

Meerkats teach young how to handle difficult prey by bringing them progressively less disabled prey to deal with, but mothers judge how much to disable prey by the age of the young as revealed by the timbre of their calls, rather than direct assessment of their ability to handle prey (Thornton and McAuliffe 2006).

In short, then, antlions do not match the behavioral activity profile of insects already known to possess learning capabilities, and they appear to be equipped with several instinctive behavioral adaptations, not only to detect the approach of prey well in advance, but also to handle prey efficiently, thus obviating the need for learning.

Animals usually take prey close to their own body size, but an adult thylacine of around 30 kg was found to be incapable of handling prey much larger than 5 kg.

Another possibility is that Learning antlions somehow were more efficient handling prey.

Note that at these low prey densities, the predator does not spend any significant time handling prey items.

The per capita mortality rate for prey (or the probability that one prey item is taken in unit time) decreases as the prey become abundant because predators are fully 'occupied' in handling prey and cannot increase their consumption rate beyond the asymptotic limit 1/t.

We predicted that wolves 1) prefer to use gravel roads and avoid main roads; 2) use roads more often and are closer to roads during night than daytime; and 3) use roads mainly while traveling and avoid being close to roads while handling prey and resting.

We estimated SSFs for all steps compiled, and separately for all combinations of time of day and behavioral state, that is at the end point of the real step the wolf was either handling prey (Kill), resting at a bed cluster (Rest), or traveling (single position, Travel).

This effect typically is captured by rescaling equation 1 by the time cost of handling prey, h, yielding a type II functional response [ 5]: (2) f (R, C ) = a R 1 + a h R Interference competition factors into the functional response in two ways.