Whether his inspiration was a person, an animal, plants or the corner of a room, though, light was his main prey. To help him capture it, he jotted down notes about weather and colours.

无论妙手偶得的是人，是动物，是植物还是房屋的一角，光线始终是捕捉的主打，为此他匆忙记下天气和色彩。

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A few hourslater all that remained of this enormous prey animal were its skull, a fewother bare bones and a bloody patch on the ground where the buffalo had laindown for the last time.

几个小时候，在水牛最后倒下的地方只剩下它的头骨，几根光骨头和地面上一摊血迹。

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As a prey animal, the evolution of the giraffe's habits means that they rarely lie down, as it's difficult for them to get up again.

长颈鹿是被捕食的动物，经过进化后，它们现在很少会躺下，因为躺下后要再起来可不容易。

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"If you understand the distribution of these structures in the skin of a prey animal, you can understand something about predator-prey interactions, and it might explain some of the hadrosaur fossils we see with these bite marks, " he said.

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The researchers report in the Journal of Animal Ecology that although on the whole big animals are indeed better at handling and killing prey, the largest wolves struggled in the chase.

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