At first glance, it might appear contradictory for snakes to employ both procoagulant and anticoagulant enzymes, but in reality, this is a well-coordinated strategy to render the prey's blood wholly incoagulable with astonishing speed.
Starvation was endemic and rendered prisoners easy prey for typhus and dysentery.
He believed that the Manchu conquest was made possible by faulty government and education, which had rendered China easy prey to alien conquerors.
Movie history is littered with the mangled (Joe Morton in "Terminator 2"), flayed (Mr. Freeman in "Unforgiven") and even mauled (Harold Perrineau in "The Edge") bodies of supporting black characters, some sacrificed on an altar of their relationships with the white headliners, others rendered into first prey for horror-movie monsters.
Lines 1-21 Wrath – sing, goddess, of the ruinous wrath of Peleus' son Achilles, that inflicted woes without number upon the Achaeans, hurled forth to Hades many strong souls of warriors and rendered their bodies prey for the dogs, for all birds, and the will of Zeus was accomplished; sing from when they two first stood in conflict – Atreus' son, lord of men, and godlike Achilles.
Allelochemicals produced by prey often render their tissues unpalatable or toxic to a majority of potential consumers, yet some marine consumers have evolved resistance to host chemical defenses.
Moreover, 65% of the free-ranging animals were released farther than 2-km distance from the human settlements which rendered the animals easy prey to wild predators.
At one point in their evolution, spotted hyenas developed sharp carnassials behind their crushing premolars; this rendered waiting for their prey to die no longer a necessity, as is the case for brown and striped hyenas, and thus became pack hunters as well as scavengers.
In addition, although their average luminance matched the background, the arrangement of the striped patterns might render the striped and interval-striped prey more conspicuous than the uniform gray prey.
The ancient newfound crocodilian Tyrannoneustes lythrodectikos (shown here in an artist's rendering) would have devoured giant prey some 165 million years ago.
These effects on larval physiology and predator-prey interactions may render temperature a key factor in determining juvenile fitness and survival.
