Sentence examples for most common prey from inspiring English sources

Rodents are the most common prey; the smaller species, however, eat insects.

That number makes the social wrasse the most common prey item found inside lionfish in the area.

The relatively low caloric value of the most common prey (snapping shrimp, Alpheus malabaricus) suggests that high numbers must be consumed to meet the sharks' daily requirements.

This might be the result of an evolutionary arms race, with venom mixtures evolving to work best on each snake's most common prey.

Although fish and frogs are their most common prey, they will eat almost any small vertebrate.

Mosquitoes and midges are the most common prey, but many other insects and some spiders are eaten.

Cod is the second-most common prey species found in the stomachs of harbour porpoises by-caught in the Danish Straits (see Sveegaard 2011 for a review).

"Sheep were the most common, abundant prey source," Dr. Newsome said.

Multi year stomach content analyses of bluefin tuna caught in this region revealed Atlantic menhaden to be the most common (96%) prey item [58].

In much the same way that predators form a search image for the most common cryptic prey type [ 9], increased male sexual interest has been observed towards the most common female morph in a given population [ 19, 32- 34].

Thus, when wild birds were "trained" to expect one form to be most common, they preyed disproportionately on that form.