Faced with a precipice or a predator, the brain is biased to make certain decisions.
Many birds have an instinct to protect their young when approached by a predator, but they will eventually give up if the predator is too strong or dangerous to deter.
Fly larvae are the top-level predator in the pitcher, the analogues of terrestrial tigers or wolves.
Compare the anti-predator strategies of several different species: rat, prairie dog, ground squirrel, meerkat, gazelle or other antelope or deer, and vervet monkey.
Hopefully, the presence of this predator is a good sign of the forest's health-even though it's a smaller cat the forest has to have enough resources to sustain it.
Often, an attacker or predator just wants your money.
Paradoxically, the intrusion of another top predator could in someways make life easier for the white bears, says Rockwell.
With the leveraged loans market now in free fall, however, Highland's large holdings of such debt have transformed it from predator to potential target.
A titanic snake that snacked on crocodiles and was longer than a London bus has been identified as the top predator to walk, or at least slither, the land when the dinosaurs disappeared.
The polar bear is the biggest land predator of them all.
That predator shrimp takes the opportunity to feed on dying animals that get caught in volcanic bursts of activity.
Even if the prey had a good sensory system to notice a predator closing in, the success rate of a nocturnal attack may be higher than a diurnal attack.
Animals must be able to tell, for example, how quickly a potential predator is approaching.
This suspected fighting behavior, the cannibalism finding and the massive size of these dinosaurs all indicate T. rex was a solitary predator that did not hunt in packs.
Reptiles, inhabit, species, leatherback, flipper, lung, shell, predator, hatch.
It is also reckoned by some, given that it hunts down and eats bacteria, to be the most abundant predator on Earth. It is found in every ocean.
Hailed as' the new Didier Drogba ', this pacey and powerful predator is one of the game's most coveted young stars.
Maybe I could just buy some predator bugs, such as the praying mantis, to keep watch.
There are benefits to having an apex predator in Griffith Park, said David Ryu, the city councilman whose district includes the park.
Lion is a predator in the nature.
“The idea of a man-made machine chopping a bird in half creates a visceral reaction, ” he said, “while the idea of a predator with its prey in its mouth — well we’ve seen that on the Nature Channel.
