Sentence examples for potential tit from inspiring English sources

Security guards are there to keep all the potential tit grabbers under control.

At the same time compared to other potential tit predators (mammals or reptiles) birds have a highly sophisticated visual system with good colour discrimination abilities [ 36, 60, 61] and thus are expected to exert strong selection pressures on the visual appearance of their prey.

Great tits may also have avoided nest features associated to tits because potential heterospecific competitors, the blue tits [ 21], exhibited the same apparent preference for a given symbol as great tits.

A potential reason for visits in tit nests is that flycatchers use tit preferences in adjusting their own choices of nest-site characteristics [ 20], an important niche dimension in birds [ 21].

For instance, two studies presented reasonable tests of the hypothesis that male plumage colour in blue tits signals potential aggression towards conspecific males [ 18, 19], but they did so with dramatically different methods (captive versus wild, response to live threats versus taxidermic mounts, different measurements of aggression, and so on).

The potential to go arse-over-tit is enormous".

In sum, we find that both polygyny and EPP increase the potential for sexual selection in blue tits.

We found that both the occurrence of EPP and polygyny considerably increased variance in reproductive success among male blue tits, thus enhancing the potential for sexual selection.

The way he looked was inextricable from the rest of his appeal as a potential leader, and so, perhaps, a game of subliminal, symbolic tit for tat was to be expected.

Therefore, an increase in TIT and rc has positive effect on most of the component's potential improvements to have a CCPP with higher efficiency and lower exergy destruction.

Nonetheless, we must also consider that although female nestling great tits present lower testosterone levels than males [45], low testosterone titles have still potential to produce some cost, reducing the differences between sexes.