A. melinus females accepted equally and spent the same time feeding on the five honeydews.
And second, the animal grazed with its neck horizontal about half the time, feeding on the same bushes and shrubs as everyone else.
A North Carolina editor exulted: "Won't the vultures have a good time feeding on Yankee carcasses?" Northerners' rhetoric would never reach such a fever pitch.
Heifers spent 46 min/d less time feeding on the day they were switched to the head-locking barrier, but recovered on the following days.
Although written and produced before we had anthrax spores in the Senate, national debates about smallpox vaccination, searches for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and global anxiety about SARS, its release in this country at this time feeds on now routine fears of an unanticipated microbiological catastrophe.
"Unlike many other woodpeckers, they spend a lot of time feeding on the ground on ants around ants' nests".
Because the beasts had spindly limbs probably insufficient to support their weight, they likely remained in the water most of the time, feeding on fish but possibly snacking on small ancestors of dinosaurs or mammals that wandered too near the waterside.
In urban areas with between two and nine houses per hectare, female cougars killed 36% more deer than female cats in rural areas and spent less time feeding on each carcass, the scientists report online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Male hunting patterns did not appear to be affected.
For the leaf-tying caterpillars, intervals spanned multiple food batches, so leaf data were averaged (weighted by time fed on a batch) for each interval.
This is the same conclusion reached by Petersen et al. [32] for the Benguela upwelling system where, similarly, black-browed albatrosses spend considerably more time feeding on natural prey than in association with fisheries.
