根据一项新发表的研究，猫似乎能够通过它们的耳朵和与生俱来的对物质世界运作方式的理解来预测隐藏猎物的位置。
According to a newly published study, cats seem to be able to predict the location of hiding prey using both their ears and an inborn understanding of how the physical world works.
然而，最近的实地研究显示，在野外潜水时，海豹通常会直接冲向猎物，并在不到20分钟内返回水面。
Recent field studies, however, reveal that on dives in the wild, the seal usually heads directly for its prey and returns to the surface in less than twenty minutes.
研究人员得出结论，猫的捕猎方式可能是基于它们利用听觉推断猎物位置的常识能力而发展起来的。
The researchers conclude that cats' hunting style may have developed based on their common sense abilities to infer where prey is, using their hearing.
研究人员得出结论，猫的捕猎方式可能是通过使用它们的听觉，基于它们的常识性能力来推断猎物的位置而培养起来的。
The researchers conclude that cats' hunting style may have developed based on their common-sense abilities to infer where prey is, using their hearing.
澳大利亚的研究人员一直在设计并测试一种能骗过狮子的方法，即在牛屁股上画眼睛，让狮子以为自己正被猎物注视着。
Researchers in Australia have been devising and testing a method of trickery to make lions think they are being watched by the painted eyes on cow butts.
“蛇类拥有一套独特的感官系统，用来探测红外射线，使得它们可以生成捕食者或猎物的“热成像图片”。”研究报道开宗明义。
"Snakes possess a unique sensory system for detecting infrared radiation, enabling them to generate a 'thermal image' of predators or prey," begins the study.
研究人员经分析各造访生物震动的频率、持续时间以及振幅发现，食虫椿象与蜘蛛的某些猎物的震动特点最为相似。
Then the researchers analyzed the frequency, duration and amplitude of each visitor's vibrations. And they found that assassin bug's vibes most closely matched some of those of prey.
研究者总结到，小型的肉食动物在猎物速度较快的环境下占有优势，而大型掠食动物则猎物体型较大，速度较慢的环境下具有优势。
The researchers conclude that smaller carnivores would have had an advantage in environments with predominantly fast prey, and bigger ones where prey was slower and larger.
研究者说这有可能是由于哺乳动物向北部山脉移动、兽类短缺或是人类越来越偏爱其他的猎物种类造成的。
The researchers say this could be due to a northward range shift in the mammal, a scarcity of the beast, or an increasing human preference for other prey species.
罗瑟斯塔研究所的研究人员重新设计了蜘蛛运动模式，让最强韧的用来四处活动和阻挡猎物的牵引丝具有弹性和柔韧性。
Researchers at Rothamsted Research redesigned the model to allow for elasticity and flexibility in the spider's dragline, its most sturdy line of silk used for moving about and snagging prey.
现在，一项对断裂牙齿的研究显示，艺术的想象还是很符合事实的，至少在食肉动物和猎物较量这块儿是这样。
Now a study of broken teeth reveals that artistic licence has, at least for predator and prey, been rather accurate.
研究人员观察了蜘蛛，看它们是如何“招待”它们的蛛网上的各种各样的客人的——有树叶碎片，求爱者，苍蝇之类的猎物，以及猎蝽。
Researchers observed how spiders reacted to various visitors to their webs-like leaf fragments, courting males, prey like flies, and the assassin bugs.
该研究结果对传统的观点发起了挑战，传统观点认为，几乎所有的食肉恐龙捕食的都是与猎物自身最接近的后代——鸟类。
The findings challenge the conventional view that almost all theropods hunted prey, especially those closest to their descendants, birds.
研究由列斯特郡洛丁顿艾乐顿农场的猎物保存基金会所进行，一开始用法国芥末，可是发现并未达到效果。
Research by the Game Conservancy Trust at Allerton Farm in Loddington, Leics, initially tried French mustard but found that it was not up to the job.
研究员相信胡须可以帮助觅食的海豹最优化它们的捕食行动，找出合适形状和大小的猎物。
The researchers believe whiskers could allow foraging seals to optimise their hunting behaviour to suit the size and shape of their prey.
“我们认为对食物来源对捕食者和猎物的关系有几个不同的影响。”俄亥俄州立大学研究员珍妮佛·玛尔·帕斯说。
"We imagined that the food resource on the landscape could have a couple different effects on relationships between nest predators and their prey." Ohio State University researcher Jennifer Malpass.
这项研究发表在《生物力学》杂志上，文中表明，科学家们利用3 - D计算机模型和先进的工程技术来研究鲨鱼是如何猎杀猎物的。
In research published in the Journal of Biomechanics, scientists used 3-d computers models and advanced engineering techniques to study how sharks hunt and kill their food.
在争夺小昆虫的战斗中，狼蛛比食虫植物略胜一筹。初步研究显示植物和动物王国的成员会因猎物展开争夺大战。
In the battle for bugs, Wolf spiders are outwitting carnivorous plants, according to the first study to show members of the plant and animal kingdoms competing for prey.
下一步我打算成为一个花草匠，我将研究下维纳斯捕蝇草的捕食策略和技巧，看看它们是耍了什么花招来吓唬杀死猎物的。
"Next on my agenda: becoming a plant guy, " Ashbaugh said. "I'm going to study the strategies and techniques of Venus flytraps to see what cool tricks they have to kill and scare their prey.
研究支持美洲虎和美洲狮的空间相互回避概念，但两者猎物之间分化的研究结果不相吻合。
Studies support the concept of mutual spatial avoidance between jaguar and puma, whereas results of prey partitioning between jaguar and puma are conflicting.
在这个发现之前，我们所知的人类用带尖的武器狩猎野牛麋鹿等大型猎物，但是大多数我们研究的人类据点都是狩猎营地。
'Before this find, we knew people were hunting large game like bison or elk with sophisticated weapons, but most of sites we had to study were hunting camps.'
研究人员总结道，由于变色龙唾液的高黏性以及猎物和舌头之间较大的接触面积，黏性附着力不是捕捉猎物大小的限制因素。
Our study shows that the size of the captured prey is not limited by viscous adhesion, owing to the high mucus viscosity and large contact area between the prey and the tongue.
一项最近的研究为更新世晚期的捕食者-猎物动力学提供了线索。
A recent study has provided clues to predator-prey dynamics in the late Pleistocene era.
但是，这是研究人员首度有确凿的证据，显示海豚所发出的声音会让牠们的猎物致命。
This, however, is the first time that researchers have got hard evidence that dolphin voices can be deadly to their 2 prey.
但是，这是研究人员首度有确凿的证据，显示海豚所发出的声音会让牠们的猎物致命。
This, however, is the first time that researchers have got hard evidence that dolphin voices can be deadly to their 2 prey.
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