Sentence examples for large food items from inspiring English sources

It's not clear what majors do, though some have suggested that given their size, they may defend the nest or carry large food items.

Morphologically, widening of choana may lead to increase air-flow that drain to the buccal cavity during closing of the mouth after catching prey or may be related to the uptake of large food items.

One performance advantage of this morphology is that it promotes relatively large bite forces at wide jaw gapes, which may be useful for processing large food items along the posterior dentition.

It places large food items such as acorns or hickory nuts in crevices in tree trunks, and then hammers them open with its strong beak; surplus seeds are cached under loose bark or crevices of trees.

Because large food items were both positive and negative in the present experiment, the learning effect observed in the Gap/Large-food condition could not be attributed to non-reinforcement cuing by large food items.

Optimal foraging theory predicts that ambush predators will be stocky and generally consume relatively large food items, whereas active predators will be slim and consume smaller prey [ 69].

Their habit of wedging a large food item in a crevice and then hacking at it with their strong bills gives this group its English name.

Experiment 2 was conducted to further examine the influences of perceptual cues with a large food item.

If so, they should choose an alternative with a small food item in the trials in which the large food item could be retrieved.

Additionally, in Experiment 1, the large food item was always presented such that it could not be retrieved (Lf−1, Lf−2, Lf−1/Ld, Lf−2/Ld).

A similar response tendency was observed in Experiment 2, in which the effects of the large food item were examined in three different conditions.