Sentence examples for they fed upon from inspiring English sources

They fed upon the 30-foot cactus plants, climbing quite high.

Moreover, beavers, which had been recovering from heavy fur-trapping in the late 1800s, crashed in the 1930s, as the trees they fed upon disappeared.

They are destructive when they feed upon, and often destroy, wooden structures or vegetable matter valuable to humans.

But also because India's governments have not been sufficiently troubled by these gangs to sustain much effort against them, or the local grievances they feed upon.

Because carnivores are large and depend on meat, there must be fewer carnivores in the environment than the prey animals they feed upon.

They come out at night and use heat sensors to find a goat, child or other mammal, which they feed upon only after determining from its breathing that it is truly asleep.

Lemmings remain active all winter, living under the snow where they feed upon the roots of grasses and sedges; they may even reproduce under the thin yet insulative snow layer.

During the rainy season they feed upon the fresh grass.

These bats often move to cold parts of the hibernacula, fly during the day and during cold winter weather when the insects they feed upon are not available, and exhibit other uncharacteristic behavior".

As a consequence a large number of the seeds from the fruit they feed upon germinate in the cave and spoil.

These guilds differ in many aspects of their biology, including the tissue they feed upon, their exposure to enemies, and in phenology, leading us to hypothesize that increasing patch density or age causes differences in plant nutritional quality that affect all of these guilds similarly.