Sentence examples for seize prey from inspiring English sources
Using their spined front legs, mantids, which feed exclusively on living insects, seize prey in a viselike grip.
The thorny-edged pedipalps (second pair of appendages) seize prey, and the third appendages are long, whiplike feelers.
In herons particularly, the neck is curled back on itself at rest but can be instantly straightened on alert or to seize prey.
In frequent slide presentations to community groups, he pulls no punches, describing how the snakes seize prey with small sharp teeth and suffocate it with muscular coils.
Soon after Jake figures it out, though, townsfolk have been snatched by the aliens, yanked up by long, tentaclelike appendages that flick out of the spaceships and seize prey as easily as frogs gobble flies.
Red kites have perfected the snatch-and-grab technique of hunting, lunging feet-first to seize prey and then flapping off triumphantly with their catch, often with other kites in pursuit.
The front teeth were suitable for seizing prey, whereas those in the back were suitable for crushing mollusks.
Conversely, an animal with hooves must be an herbivore, since it has "no means of seizing prey".
The chelicerae (first pair of appendages) are large toothed, jawlike pincers, and the leglike pedipalps (second pair of appendages) have suctorial tips for seizing prey.
Other carnivorous plants also resort to strange techniques for seizing prey, says Jonathan Moran of Royal Roads University in Victoria, Canada, but the features described in the new study are "very, very sophisticated.
