Sentence examples for prey herding from inspiring English sources

When foraging, it slowly swims around its prey, herding it into a tight "ball" and then speeds through the bunched organisms with a wide-open mouth.

The herd behavior, such as of drifting herbivores observed in the savanna, is a scenario in which the predator can only interact with the prey along the outer corridor of the prey herd when the prey are attached by the predator.

They may be naturally following their prey, but they can also target herds of cattle and goats.

Scientists hypothesise that the whales use this pale side to "flash" their prey and herd them into place.

"I feel my ancestors talking to me when I look at our khipu," said Marcelina Gallardo, 48, a herder who lives with her children here in the puna, the Andean region above the tree line where temperatures drop below freezing at night and carnivores like the puma prey on herds.

Recently, some predator-prey models [19 23] in which the prey exhibits herd behavior were considered.

A group of humpbacks will get together and begin herding prey — herring, for example — toward the sea surface through the use of coordinated hunting calls.

Some studies conclude that the animal may have hunted in small family groups, with the main group herding prey in the general direction of an individual waiting in ambush.

Herbivorous mammals may eat or trample crops and compete with livestock for food, and native carnivores sometimes prey on domestic herds.

Whales have learned from their peers how to use their tails to herd prey.

For the predator-prey model (1.1), the prey exhibits strong herd structure implying that the predator generally interacts with the prey along the outer corridor of the herd, and this behavior makes their predators difficult to get food (such as lions on the vast grassland).