Sentence examples for vulnerable to being eaten from inspiring English sources

If their eggs hatch on the beach, they are vulnerable to being eaten, hence the need for a protective nursery.

Besides bolstering the theory that weak and sick prey are more vulnerable to being eaten, the study indicates that predation may ultimately keep the malaria parasite in check, the authors note.

To understand how boldness could translate into leadership, the Cambridge team set up aquaria in which one side was a "safe area" with deep water and plastic plants and the other side was a "risky," exposed area designed to make the fish feel vulnerable to being eaten by birds.

Tadpoles are highly vulnerable to being eaten by fish, newts, predatory diving beetles, and birds, such as kingfishers.

"He would be vulnerable to being charged.

The vulnerable chicks are eaten alive by the mice, which also compete with the adult birds for food.

Salad greens are particularly vulnerable because they often are eaten raw and can harbor bacteria when torn.

Vegetarian meals were eaten in a "communal" dining area, where food was vulnerable to aggressive monkeys and crows.

Bees are especially vulnerable to many insecticides: when you spray when and where they are eating, they die.

On California's Anacapa Island, for example, invasive rats – probably stranded there by a 19th Century shipwreck – were eating their way through vulnerable Scripps's Murrelet eggs and chicks.

The researchers said it was possible the girls in Fiji were particularly vulnerable to developing eating disorder behaviour from exposure to TV, given the difference between real body shape and media images.