Sentence examples for prey feed from inspiring English sources

There has been a significant increase in the number of voles, which the birds of prey feed on, in Kielder Forest, Northumberland, and experts believe this is linked to the recent cold weather.

Neither retinal images nor light reflected from prey feed a frog.

What were they doing, for example: catching prey, feeding, swimming or resting?

The continuous expression of the Bt (=Bacillus thuringiensis) toxin in plants during the growing season may bring Bt toxin into contact with the omnivorous big-eyed bug Geocoris punctipes (Say) (Hemiptera: Geocoridae), an important predator in cotton fields, through prey fed Bt-cotton or through plant feeding.

By combining dinosaur anatomy with mechanical engineering and computer visualization, the researchers were able to experiment with how the Allosaurus attacked prey, fed, or simply looked around.

In aquatic systems, the presence of predator cues reduced prey feeding rate and overall activity by an average of 57% and 42%, respectively (45% and 34% in terrestrial systems).

Even in a system with only three prey fed artificially, apparent differential digestion makes predictions unreliable (e.g. Deagle et al. 2010).

Not necessarily, the guys said, adding that there were so many little Asian carp now that the other fish had more prey to feed on.

William Ripple, the lead author, became aware of the issue a few years ago while studying Africa's starving lions, who couldn't find enough prey to feed themselves.

The male (called the "tiercel") and the female (simply called the "falcon") both leave the nest to gather prey to feed the young.

Adults use a variety of wetlands when foraging for invertebrate prey to feed nestlings, and aquatic sites play a key role in providing adequate diversity and availability of suitable invertebrate prey to allow successful chick rearing throughout the long breeding season of this multi-brooded species.