He points out that creatures are programmed to find food and to avoid predators.

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The islands are home to an estimated 80, 000 breeding pairs of kittiwakes, which build nests on the cliffs to avoid predators.

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In the process, they learned to avoid predators, identify sources of food, water and shelter, and solve the other problems required for survival, while in motion.

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Severino had built up a mass of knowledge on where to find water, which nuts to eat and where to find them and how to avoid predators, the BBC's Brazil correspondent Tom Gibb reports.

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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.

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Experts were amazed that the tagged bat managed to find another colony and avoid predators during the journey.

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But noise pollution might severely affect the distribution of fish, and their ability to reproduce, communicate and avoid predators.

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The butterflies produce toxins when eaten and predators learn to recognise and avoid a specific wing pattern.

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