Sentence examples for they mainly fed on from inspiring English sources

France Staub suggested that they mainly fed on palm fruits, and he attempted to correlate the fat-cycle of the dodo with the fruiting regime of the palms.

Cereal aphids are oligophagous i.e. they mainly feed on cereals.

They mainly feed on squid and rarely attack, apparently only when mistaking other mammals for seals or prey.

Between seasons, they mainly feed on the Culms grasses.

Off central California, they mainly feed on anchovies between June and August, and on krill (Euphausia pacifica) during September and October.

They mainly feed on small lizards and frogs [ 7] and the LD50 of their venom is 1.3 mg/kg [ 8].

Terrestrial isopods are crustaceans that represent a major component of the litter ecosystem, as they mainly feed on dead plant material and participate in litter decomposition.

Water rails are omnivorous, although they mainly feed on animals.

In a Finnish study, only one-tenth of the wintering goldcrest population, which mainly fed on spiders, survived to spring.

The reconstructions suggests these dinosaurs mainly fed on ferns and other low vegetation, Parrish says.

The nestlings are mainly fed on animal food such as worms, slugs, snails and insect larvae.