Sentence examples for prey sand from inspiring English sources

Saigas survive there, as do rodent sand marmots and desert jerboas and, as beasts of prey, sand badgers.

It has also been observed that when close enough to the prey, sand tiger sharks grab with a quick, sideways snap.

The reason for the population decrease goes back to 2005, with the collapse of the puffin's main prey, the sand eel.

So when thrashing prey kick sand or bits of coral its way, the guitarfish protects itself with an eye-catching method: retracting its eyes almost completely into its head, leaving a craterlike depression.

These abilities might include recognising prey hiding in sand, or quickly finding a shelter to escape from a larger predator.

Sharks find prey hidden in sand by detecting the electric fields they produce.

This enables sharks to detect a heart beat of prey buried in sand from a faint electrical field or the action of a gill or a swimming muscle of another animal.

In a unique technique, humpbacks blow precisely calibrated streams of bubbles to create underwater nets around their prey - tiny sand-eels.

Prey that burrow in sand (as opposed to seagrass) cannot move from that spot and remain hidden.

This method of spatially clustering positions at a given buffer radius of 100 m has proven to be the most successful for detecting prey remains in Scandinavia (Sand et al. 2005) and has since been applied in all Scandinavian kill rate studies (Zimmermann et al. 2007; Sand et al. 2008, 2012).

The steep and unstable walls of the pit can prove challenging to climb for unfortunate ants who venture too close a problem compounded by the fact that the antlion will throw sand at their prey before pulling them beneath the surface.