Sentence examples for prey for animals from inspiring English sources

When O'Connor writes, "you ought be protected as a precious young lady", and says that female nudity makes young women "prey for animals and less than animals", she equates women's bodies with vulnerability and violence.

We don't encourage our daughters to walk around naked in it because it makes them prey for animals and less than animals, a distressing majority of whom work in the music industry and it's associated media.

For example, human and animal decisions in terms of foraging activities are studied in situations where the resource distribution is clumped in patches (e.g. information on the internet for humans [11] and prey for animals [12]).

In turn, the Vellberg rhynchocephalian would itself have been prey for other animals in the community, such as immature individuals of Batrachotomus and other archosauromorphs.

Also, baby ducks are easy prey for wild animals.

Like dogs and cats, they are more likely to end up homeless and prey for other animals.

When searching for prey, animals should maximize energetic gain, while minimizing energy expenditure by altering their movements relative to prey availability.

This is a major problem for prey animals that have to balance predation risk with the cost of antipredator action.

If constantly secreted defence compounds result in increased protection against naive predators (pre-aposematism), it also follows that this would have been the adopted strategy for prey animals.

Likewise, in executing a journey with low-cost and high-cost subcomponents, if the journey might be interrupted (which is not unlikely for prey animals) then it is better to execute the low-cost subcomponents first, so as to have wasted as little effort as possible if interrupted.

Turtles in turn are prey for a variety of animals, mainly as eggs and hatchlings.