Sentence examples for trapping prey from inspiring English sources
The authors suggested that the hyphal structures for trapping prey developed independently in various lineages of fungi through geologic time.
It was one of the most powerful ocean predators of its time, with an exoskeleton "helmet" shielding its head, a sleek narrow body, and large grasping limbs for trapping prey.
Experiments have shown that Deinopis spinosus has two different techniques for trapping prey: backwards strikes to catch flying insects, whose vibrations it detects; and forward strikes to catch ground-walking prey that it sees.
The capture spiral of a spider's orb web is made of flagelliform silk, providing high elasticity and an outstanding toughness, perfectly suited for trapping prey.
The male web-building spider isn't so lucky: To start his courtship ritual, he must venture onto a female spider's web, running the risk that she will mistake him for trapped prey and gobble him up in an ill-advised bout of what scientists call "precopulatory cannibalism".
Additionally, pitcher plants collect varying amounts of organic and inorganic N via trapped prey.
More likely, the crustacean swam forward using the trunk appendages and trapped prey or at least grabbed food items with the raptorial appendages.
The protruded tongue has a central depression, and the rim of this collapses inward as the target is struck, trapping the prey in a mucus-laden trough.
A web has to perform three functions: intercepting the prey (intersection), absorbing its momentum without breaking (stopping), and trapping the prey by entangling it or sticking to it (retention).
Skates feed on mollusks, crustaceans, and fishes, trapping active prey by dropping down on it from above.
It would have taken in mouthfuls of sand or mud and squeezed them back out through its teeth, trapping its prey in the comb as it did so in the way that a baleen whale traps krill.The creature's shovel-shaped head supports this idea, for it would have been easy to push through the sediment.
