Sentence examples for primary predator from inspiring English sources

We examined the landscape-level distribution of groups of blue wildebeest, Connochaetes taurinus, and Burchell's zebra, Equus burchelli, in a predominantly woodland area (Karongwe Game Reserve, South Africa; KGR) to test the hypothesis that group dynamics are a function of minimizing predation risk from their primary predator, lion, Panthera leo.

The program works best when it shows the world of the valley and how the wolves' role as a primary predator shapes it.

Flatfishes in turn fall prey to a variety of large fish and cetaceans (such as whales and porpoises), but humans are the primary predator of many flatfishes.

Analysis of the model shows that under certain conditions the presence of the primary predator with its high mineralization ability accelerates the biotic turnover measured by primary production.

Meanwhile, on the West Coast, the urchins' primary predator was the sea otter, which wound up by 1977 on the Threatened and Endangered Species list.

Harvesting in North American waters began almost coincidentally, as a response to an ecological problem: At the end of the 20th century, Atlantic urchin populations swelled, particularly in Maine, coinciding with the decline of cod, its primary predator, and other ground fish.

He calls bats "sophisticated, beautiful, even cute, quite aside from their crucial roles as primary predators of insects, pollinators of flowers, and dispensers of seeds".

In the eighteen-fifties, with sea otters, the urchins' primary predators, hunted nearly to extinction for their fur, the purple urchins began experiencing a population boom.

Tigers are superlative primary predators and in the Sundarbans they have an unusually aggressive reputation, which some blame on drinking salty water.

But Pante does concur with Pickering, based on other studies, that the hominins of roughly 1 million years ago were probably hunting or driving away primary predators.

Frogs are primary predators and an important part of the food web.