Sentence examples for prey choice from inspiring English sources

Read, V. M. S. & Hughes, R. N. Feeding behavior and prey choice in Macroperipatus torquatus (Onychophora).

Bocherens, H. et al. Isotopic evidence for dietary ecology of cave lion (Panthera spelaea) in North-WesternEurope: prey choice, competition and implications for extinction.

The high abundance of α-Cyanobacteria in marine waters44 likely explains this conservation in prey choice that spans millions of years.

Chemical cue trials indicated that whelks did not select prey based on chemical recognition, indicating that tactile stimulation was an important driver of prey choice.

Given conservation in prey choice and the widespread abundance of α-Cyanobacteria in the oceans23,24, it also is possible that members of this prokaryote clade may be detected in the food vacuoles of heterotrophic Paulinella species.

Two deeply stratified cave sites in southern Greece show how the relations between material input rates and human prey choice may reflect local site function and regional food supply effects simultaneously.

However, these studies about change in diet breadth did not consider the importance of spatial scale on analysis of prey choice and diet breadth and used the entire region as a unit of analysis.

A spider's 'live-prey choice' was the first prey eaten.

Our criteria for recording that a spider 'chose' included a requirement that the spider's live-prey choice matched its mount or virtual-prey choice.

In virtual-prey tests, spiders made a 'virtual-prey choice' by stalking one of two animated 3D drawings of mosquitoes and the only variable by which the two prey differed was posture (Anopheles: abdomen tilted up; Culex: abdomen horizontal).

Spiders were allowed 15 min to make a virtual-prey choice, except that, if the spider was stalking when the 15-min period ended, the test period was extended long enough for it complete the stalking bout.