The Maryland researchers concluded that while many fish launch out of the water into the air to capture prey, migrate, or avoid predators, the guppies have a different evolutionary motive: to reach all the available habitat in Trinidad's mountain streams.
Its colloquial name stems from the odor emitted from glands on its abdomen a defense mechanism triggered by disturbances like predators or homeowners who stumble upon them in attics.
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Fast or sudden movements signal predators to penguins, and they react accordingly.
Garden gnomes have served as symbols of defiance on many levels as guardians of the natural environment against intending predators, or simply as cheerleaders for the colourful suburban plot, under threat from student japesters in France or, more seriously, from the fashionable proponents of ever more sophisticated garden design.
It is not known whether they were eaten by predators, stolen or escaped from their cages.
It is hoped that here the eggs and chicks will be safe from tides, human activity and predators such as gulls or foxes.
In early 2003, CNN reported that nearly half the U.S. Air Force's fleet of RQ-1 Predators were shot down or crashed, according to Air Force officials and military records.
Scientists have also discovered that humans apply our fight-or-flight reflexes not only to predators but to data itself!
Or are Microsoft and Facebook the rapacious predators who sedulously poach the fruit from others intellectual vigor?
More than a third of the 182 Predators deployed by the Air Force have crashed in combat or other operations, according to Air Force statistics.
He is always on call and - when he is not examining the jaws and the paws of a lion - he may be rushing off in a helicopter to treat animals injured in snares or working out how to restock a national park with game for the predators.
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