Sentence examples for off the prey from inspiring English sources

Although population boomed at first, as they focused all of their energy on reproduction and feeding, interlopers soon took advantage of their industriousness, feasting off the prey caught in their cobwebs, and gobbling up the spiders themselves.

So, both bats and porpoises evolved to emit a beam of sound and then track their prey based on the echoes of that sound bouncing off the prey and other objects.

Because of its defense/growth rate trade-off, the prey then evolves toward a less defended phenotype with a higher intrinsic rate of increase (Fig. 1B).

A nonevolving predator can be rescued from extinction by adaptive evolution of its prey due to a trade-off for the prey between defense against predation and population growth rate.

He found that great divergence was most often associated when two or more strategies for reducing predation risk were available or in the presence of two or more distinct types of predators with some form of trade-off in the preys' ability to avoid different predators.

Kingsolver, a former biologist and journalist, has a rare ability to communicate widely what she knows as a scientist, and this novel sounds warnings against hunting predators who compensate by breeding faster, or against pesticides that boost pest populations by killing off the bugs that prey on them.

During the last two years we realized that these profits were fictitious, for reasons related to accounting games: off-the-books entities, sophisticated banks preying on weaker banks and opaque securities marked to model.

An open structure that lets in light and air is best, Mr. Enterline said, in part because that makes it easy to fight off the mealybugs that often prey on indoor mandevillas.

But Mr. Paternostro pointed out that access to reporters was controlled by the police, who he said were eager to want to show off their prey after the 43-year hunt.

Keep in mind that the prey will start off with less people.

The jet knocks the prey off and the fish race to capture their dinner.