Sentence examples for staple prey from inspiring English sources
Devastation of the Iberian lynx's staple prey, the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus), by myxomatosis beginning in the 1950s and by rabbit hemorrhagic disease from the late 1980s has been primarily responsible for major reductions in the feline's numbers.
Insects, and particularly ants, comprise the staple prey in both aerial and terrestrial pitchers.
Cattle are nowadays evenly distributed in the study area but for CR, where no cattle are allowed due to lynx conservation needs, as a means to maximize pasture availability for its staple prey wild rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus).
Meanwhile, office supply retailer Staples may have seen its prey wriggle out of its grasp, after Netherlands-based Corporate Express announced a deal to acquire privately held Lyreco of France for 1.7 billion euros ($2.7 billion).
Short-tailed voles are the staple diet of many birds of prey including barn owls, which regularly hunt for them by night over open countryside, listening for the sounds they make as they scurry through the grass.
Snakes, fish and birds that prey on the amphibians are already showing some signs of decline as the staple of their diet dies out.
In Labrador the puffins seemed more flexible and when the staple forage fish capelin (Mallotus villosus) declined in availability, they were able to adapt and feed the chicks on other prey species.
