Sentence examples for kill the prey from inspiring English sources

The energy released by the collapsing bubble, also known as cavitation, probably helps stun or kill the prey.

These fluids stun or kill the prey, prevent coagulation of blood, and initiate the process of digestion.

LONDON, Dec. 26 (AP) — More than 300,000 people thronged the British countryside on Tuesday for the annual Boxing Day fox hunts, organizers said, two years after Parliament passed a law banning traditional fox hunting in which dogs chase and kill the prey.

Another possibility for handling large prey is that theropods like Allosaurus were "flesh grazers" which could take bites of flesh out of living sauropods that were sufficient to sustain the predator so it would not have needed to expend the effort to kill the prey outright.

It may have then used its long canines to deliver a deep stabbing bite or open-jawed stabbing thrust to the throat, which would generally cut through the jugular vein and/or the trachea and thus kill the prey very quickly.

Spread-eagling generally suffices to numb or kill the prey, and the use of venom has only been noted for some species ([21], [24] and references cited therein).

Both are very effective at either stunning or killing the prey.

Before giving prey to pups that were still young, helpers usually killed the prey or disabled it, such as by removing the stinger of a scorpion.

By combining careful semi-synchronous culturing of prey and predators with RNA preparations we have been able to study the transcriptome of Bdellovibrio at 30 minutes of predatory interaction, a key point in predation, as the Bdellovibrio enters the prey periplasm and establishes itself by attaching to the prey cytoplasmic membrane and killing the prey.

It is a way of making sure they kill only the prey they seek without inadvertently killing other creatures as well.

Will you kill the pests that prey upon your salad?