Sentence examples for main predator the from inspiring English sources

Additionally, they can be induced to display another unique morphology, a bulgy body shape, when exposed to a predation threat from their main predator, the larval salamander, Hynobius retardatus [14].

But that would bring the seals closer to their main predator, the polar bear (which eats seal pups).

The breeders have had to minimise contact with the animals to prevent them becoming too tame, which would leave them at risk of being eaten by their main predator, the threatened smooth snake, if they were released.

Unfortunately for them, their main predator, the Mexican tetra, Astyanax mexicanus, also eats up these traits.

What little we know of Architeuthis, as researchers have named it, comes from dead specimens found washed up on beaches or partly digested in the stomach of its main predator, the sperm whale.

"Where you have large areas of habitat that are quite complex areas, they are doing rather well because the main predator, the mink, cannot get into the networks to hunt them all out".

Here's an odd animal behavior for you: the California ground squirrel chews on the molted skins of one of its main predators, the rattlesnake, and applies the scent to its body by licking itself all over.

The meaning of monkey calls was first worked out with vervet monkeys, which have distinct alarm calls for each of their three main predators: the martial eagle, leopards and snakes.

Isn't she worth saving?" An edited version of a two-hour interview and a subsequent telephone conversation follows: Q. O.K., why did the moose go down to the road? A. If she's a native of the greater Yellowstone ecosystem and she's pregnant, she may have done it because she wanted to give birth in a place where one of her main predators, the grizzly bear, rarely goes.

These are the most common marine mammals in the Arctic; they are a staple for the main predators, the polar bears and the Inuit hunters.

They have five main predators: the Eurasian eagle owl, the steppe eagle, the corsac fox, the common kestrel, and the saker falcon.