Sentence examples for maintain prey from inspiring English sources

Snake venom is a cocktail of biologically active proteins with multifarious pharmacological effects representing the inverse of the physiological processes that maintain prey homeostasis [ 1].

In particular, connectivity conservation efforts should focus on reducing predator human conflicts and maintaining adequate prey density in marginal habitats with low agricultural cultivation risk, where the primary land-use is nomadic livestock herding.

Alternatively, if prey maintain their threshold, they avoid increased false alarms at the cost of increased predation rate.

After counting the number of consumed larvae, after every 3 hr, the same numbers of larvae were replenished within the glass jars to maintain the same prey density.

In this study, gravid female C. sculpturatus had significantly wider chelae than females 28 days FOR, which may have conferred the former group an advantage when catching and subduing prey by enabling those individuals to maintain a stronger grasp on prey items, thus decreasing their prey-handling time.

And animals that prey upon herbivores will need to eat more of their shrinking prey to maintain their body sizes, the thinking goes.

As the prey of accipitrids are often consumed while still alive, a firm grip is constantly required to maintain immobilisation until the prey is dead, further emphasising the importance of the hypertrophied talons of D-I and II.

They also maintain that the Israelis prey on drug dealers and addicts.

These colonies thus depend upon a large and reliable base of insect prey to maintain their considerable population sizes.

The number of rotifers or Artemia fed to each tank was reduced according to the number of zooplankton added (~250,000 per tank per feeding) to maintain consistent numbers of prey items between tanks.

At each iteration, all possible vertex additions to the seed and vertex deletions from the seed are considered, where baits are coupled to their corresponding preys to maintain consistency under these modifications.