Sentence examples for overcome prey from inspiring English sources

There is a constant coevolutionary battle between predators and prey, with predators evolving counterstrategies to overcome prey defenses.

The venom must work quickly to overcome prey that are fast and strong.

Mebs [ 45] argued that there is no evidence that strong selective forces drive the development of more potent toxins to overcome prey resistance, or to exploit new biochemical pathways for more effective intoxication of prey.

Both serve to limit prey flight, in snake taxa which strike, release, and then track their prey (most viperids), or to overcome prey resistance, in snakes that seize and bulldog their prey (many elapids and all colubrids).

The primary deterrent to smaller predators hunting larger animals may come from the danger of injury (Mills, 1990), or the predator not having the strength to overcome its prey, something that can be mitigated to an extent by co-operative hunting or following the prey to exhaustion (Estes and Goddard, 1967).

Once they're in deep water, divers like Cuvier's beaked whales have to sneak up on, and overcome, their prey.

Laboratory studies show that Portia's instinctive tactics are only starting points for a trial-and-error approach from which these spiders learn very quickly how to overcome new prey species.

With your support we will empower children to overcome those who prey on them.

Snake venom composition must respond to ontogenetic and evolutionary changes in diet, and presumably must also compensate to overcome predator or prey resistance, should that develop [ 15– 17].

He wants to see whether the Zebra jumping spider will be able to adapt to microgravity to catch its prey, overcoming millions of years of evolutionary instinct.

This permits them to overcome the relative scarcity of prey in the restricted environment constituted by their host tree crown plus tree crowns situated nearby.