Sentence examples for quickly prey from inspiring English sources

The study should also serve as a wake-up call about how quickly prey animals' behaviors can change, notes Oswald Schmitz, a population ecologist at Yale University.

The adults ordered oatmeal and an egg white omelet (it came with yolks, alas) but quickly preyed upon our daughter's fluffy waffle.

She will welcome that depiction, since football club owners who appear to be a soft touch are quickly preyed upon.

In captivity, they reach sexual maturity too quickly, fall prey to disease and, to top it off, tend to eat one another.

When scientists used allometry to calculate drag on mathematical models of different-size whales, they found that beyond lengths of 110 feet a blue whale would not be able to close its mouth fast enough around quickly escaping prey.

The motto of this game's community says it all: "losing is fun!" Dwarf Fortress is a game that has inspired whole prose epics on the travails of players' ill-fated settlements, most of which start off meagre and then quickly fall prey to the thousands of things that can go wrong.

Higher-tension threads transmit the vibrations from struggling victims more quickly, making prey capture more efficient.

He said that once the birds had experienced this feeling, they would quickly fall prey to the addiction.

But simply inserting more pre-roll ads into a video stream, for example, quickly falls prey to the law of diminishing marginal returns.

According to these scientists "reptilian oral secretions contribute to many biological roles other than to quickly dispatch prey".

It is possible that small dinosaurs (other than birds) did survive, but they would have been deprived of food, as herbivorous dinosaurs would have found plant material scarce and carnivores would have quickly found prey in short supply.