Sentence examples for threatening predator from inspiring English sources

It is hard to do wrong by "Peter and the Wolf," Prokofiev's 1936 musical fable about a plucky boy who relies on his quick wits and fearlessness to bag a threatening predator.

When the creature encounters something new, its brain activates the pattern that the new thing most closely resembles in order to figure out what to do — whether the new thing is a threatening predator or a philosophical concept.

The million-year-old skeleton combines the deadliest adaptations of several known saber-tooths--powerful limbs and sharp, serrated teeth--making it an even more threatening predator.

It is issued in the presence of kin when there is a threatening predator.

For others, altitude offers an escape from the intense competition and threatening predators on the lowlands.

Our results provide new data about the trophic ecology of this threatened predator and suggest that anthropogenic landscape changes may affect predator-prey relationships in unexpected ways.

Hypervigilanceallow horses to detect the slightest sound, smell, or movement, any of which might indicate the presence of a life-threatening predator.

"Disastrous events like this oil spill can easily tip the scale," Mansur says, especially by threatening top predators such as the Sundarbans tigers, crocodiles, and dolphins.

Coloration and color patterning of skin, scales, feathers, and hair belong to the most diverse phenotypic traits in vertebrates and have a plethora of functions such as camouflage, warning or threatening of predators, and species recognition [ 1, 2].

There's still a hulking, stony predator threatening earth, but instead of an asteroid it's Treat Williams.

People whose livelihoods are not threatened by predators do not get it, Mr. Stuhlmiller said.