Sentence examples for prey death from inspiring English sources

The function f stands for the per capita growth rate of the prey in the absence of predators, g is the prey death rate due to predation, i is the per capita death rate of predators, and (alpha _{1}) is the predator efficiency rate.

As carrion is a common element in the lizard diet, a bacterium that causes prey death and also persists indefinitely after prey death has an excellent chance of introduction into lizard mouths.

Whilst direct bite inflicted injury is the most intuitive and oft observed mechanism to rapidly dispatch prey, the role of bacteria or venom to aid prey death is poorly known.

It is noteworthy that, although a single buffalo carcass experiences enough communal feeding to infect more than a dozen lizards under this model, communal feeding is the norm for various types of large prey and thus will allow the model to operate even if bite-induced infections and subsequent prey death occur uncommonly.

Lions are presumed responsible for many predation occurrences surrounding waterhole locations in Hwange National Park, but attributing prey deaths to a specific predator at Ngamo Pan can only be hypothesized, as most kills occur at night and have not been directly observed.

Ethical unease arises as the dying patient falls prey to death throes and to the manifestations of ebbing life and the physician can only stand by and watch.

The lizard thrashes its prey to death on the nearest rock and swallows them headfirst.

Others compare drought to a python, which slowly and inexorably squeezes its prey to death.

A python doesn't crush its encircled prey to death.

Instead of relying on venom, these massive serpents squeeze their prey to death.

Believed to be a distant relative of the anaconda and boa constrictor, T. cerrejonensis crushed its prey to death.