Sentence examples for prey preference from inspiring English sources

Prey preference studies revealed that eggs were the numerically preferred host stage for both predator species (representing 92%and94%4% of all prey taken in 'no choice' and 'choice' tests, respectively).

What would happen if the predators' prey preference changed?

Following this, they were tested for subsequent prey preference in choice tests conducted in a plastic arena.

Thus, experience with certain foods encountered by newly hatched spiderlings can affect subsequent prey preference in this species.

Individual variation in prey preference is likely to be important but we have little information on this aspect of predator behaviour.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prey preference of adult and mature nymph of G. ochropterus for unparasitized and T. chilonis parasitized lepidopteran eggs thus to predict the combined field releases of G. ochropterus and trichogrammatids.

Despite these two big cats' overlapping ranges, their similar habits and shared prey preferences are some of the reasons they carefully avoid each other -- effectively making each species even more scarce.

Results suggest that individual grey seals exhibit prey preferences.

An important component of the model was inclusion of variable prey preferences for zooplankton.

In the Antarctic, scientists have identified five types of killer whales, each having different habitat, prey preferences, and hunting strategies.

"Their data indicate that prey preferences are less fixed in North Atlantic killer whales than in those in the North Pacific and Antarctic," Morin says.