Sentence examples similar to prey contest from inspiring English sources
Although Mr. Dafoe's Martin is a credible frontiersman, the hunter-prey contest is insignificant compared with the film's allegorical contemplation of opposing forces: the promises and illusions of technology, survival versus conservation, the meaning of extinction in the age of cloning and, ultimately, the mystery of the past versus the uncertainty of the future.
Reversal to monomorphism could evolve in environments in which dispersal by bridging is more important in females than fecundity (such as highly unpredictable environments for prey availability) and/or contest competition or walking on the ground is more important than bridging for males (such as habitats with sparse vegetation).
If you lose a contest with prey or a rival, it makes sense not to pick another fight immediately.
Light is ever present, and the newly visible contest between predators and prey induced an unparallelled burst of evolutionary creativity.
Trap jaws likely arose to give ants the advantage in quick-draw contests against a favorite prey: termites.
A reversal to monomorphism could also occur when an increase in environmental stochasticity for prey availability selects for high dispersal rates in females or when male-male contest competition or other dispersal modes favoring a large size become more important for males.
Consider Brightman's (1993) description of the 'grateful prey:' "The event of killing an animal is not represented as an accident or a contest but as the result of a deliberate decision of the animal or another being to permit the killing to occur.
Although voles could not deplete food resources in habitat patches, preventing direct bottom-up predator-prey interactions from food availability, density dependence were incorporated in our model through local scale contest competition for territories by both sexes (see also ODD documentation link above).
When its prey is tightly-bound, it sucks the hapless spider dry, a true eight-legged David v Goliath contest.
