Sentence examples for predatory advantages from inspiring English sources

Resembling common sympatric cichlid species may thus provide predatory advantages over a broad scale of prey species.

White sharks possess unique physiological traits that give them a predatory advantage when they exploit deep vertical habitats with gradients of structure (light, temperature, pressure, dissolved oxygen).

Nonetheless, associative learning has been shown to provide large fitness benefits in fish [36], [37], birds [38], [39], and several insect species [19], [21], [22], [29]; thus, even if the ability to anticipate the approach of prey provided only a slight predatory advantage in antlions, relative to the costs of learning, it would have been favored by natural selection.

The solution to this apparent paradox was that the low intensity echolocation used to locate flowers made them functionally undetectable to insects and thus provided them with a form of stealth echolocation and a predatory advantage (Clare et al. 2013a) and the ability to achieve trophic niche switching.

For example, group travel can have anti-predatory advantages by increasing the probability of detecting attackers, and can improve navigation by increasing the accuracy of orientation.

"The Real Estate mortgage industry is experiencing a large influx of predatory brokers taking advantage of consumers through excessive fees, bait and switch, undisclosed costs and putting consumers into loans they will not be able to pay back.

Dr. Scoggin said exaggerated investment claims, wild speculative swings, predatory investors' taking advantage of the little guy's work, fights over claims (read "patent disputes"), constant tests of endurance and adaptability, and a custom of casual dress that makes it difficult to read status at a glance were features of both booms.

Predatory lecturers taking advantage of gullible women?

America's diplomatic leverage will be weakened by a withdrawal, and Iraq's predatory neighbors will take advantage of the power vacuum to pursue their own interests.

Doctors at the conference hoped to get out the message that they were far from the stereotypes of predatory practitioners who take advantage of patients' insecurities.

They knew that predatory priests had taken advantage of their proximity and positions of trust to sexually abuse young boys, just as Sandusky appears to have done.