"prey" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Lizard cuckoos are large and powerful species, and mainly take vertebrate prey, especially, as the name implies, lizards.
- Feeding: A.sulcatus is a predatory diving beetle which feeds upon small invertebrate and vertebrate prey.
- Known vertebrate prey has included small frogs, small snakes, birds, opossums, bats and various rodents.
- But its food value is still very high if it is a vertebrate prey, such as a rodent, a bird or a fish.
- For example, the false vampire (Vampyrum spectrum), the largest bat in the Americas, eats vertebrate prey including small dove-sized birds.
- Generally, most vertebrate prey is in the weight class of several grams per individual.
- They will also consume vertebrate prey, including small mammals and other lizards.
- However, breeding birds switch mainly to capturing vertebrate prey, which pairs then bring to their nestlings.
- At least one species, the Large Slit-Faced Bat, even catches vertebrate prey, such as frogs and small birds.
- Its long nose usually makes its jaw quicker and better for catching vertebrate prey.
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