The hunters stalked their prey.
猎人们隐伏跟踪猎物。
The lions closed in on their prey.
狮子逼近它们的猎物。
She looked like a lion baulked of its prey.
她看上去像一头被夺走了猎物的狮子。
The lion will often stalk its prey for hours.
狮子经常悄然跟踪猎物达几个小时。
The spider must wait for prey to be ensnared on its web.
蜘蛛一定要耐心等待，直到猎物被它的蛛网困住。
When this occurs, the prey population can rebound.
当这种情况发生时，猎物的数量就会反弹。
How do predators affect populations of the prey animals?
捕食者如何影响猎物的数量？
Black widow spiders also use their webs to ensnare their prey.
黑寡妇蜘蛛也用它们的网诱捕猎物。
Pitcher plants use yet another strategy, growing long tube-shaped leaves to imprison their prey.
猪笼草使用了另一种策略，它们长出长长的管状叶子来囚禁猎物。
Bats have an engineering problem: how to find their way and find their prey in the absence of light.
蝙蝠们遇到了一个技术上的难题：如何在没有光线的条件下认路和捕食。
The bats are able to avoid other predators, and locate prey—typically insects that fly around at night.
蝙蝠能避开其他捕食者，找到猎物——通常是夜间飞行的昆虫。
Beware: these eye-catching anemones have venom in their tentacles, which they use to stun and capture their prey.
要当心：这些引人注目的海葵的触手上有毒液，它们就是用这个来使猎物昏迷从而捕捉到猎物的。
Lions are primarily ambush hunters, so when they feel their prey has spotted them, they usually give up on the hunt.
狮子主要属于伏击猎食者，所以一旦它们认为猎物已经发现它们，它们往往会放弃捕猎。
This unexpected display of color startles or confuses the predator and provides the would-be prey with an opportunity to escape.
这种意想不到的颜色表现会吓到捕食者或使其迷惑，并为潜在的猎物提供逃跑的机会。
For example, sea stars prey on a variety of bivalve mollusks and prevent these bivalves from monopolizing habitats on the sea floor.
例如，海星捕食各种双壳类软体动物，防止这些双壳类动物独占海底的栖息地。
However, if safe areas like those prey animals have in the wild are provided, the prey population drops to low level but not extinction.
然而，如果能给被捕食的动物提供一些它们在野外时那样的安全区域，它们的数量会降到很低但不灭绝。
Many carnivorous plants secrete enzymes to penetrate the hard exoskeleton of insects, so they can absorb nutrients from inside their prey.
许多食肉植物分泌酶以穿透昆虫坚硬的外骨骼，以从猎物体内吸收营养。
Venus flytraps, for example, share an ancestor with Portuguese sundews, which only catch prey passively, via "flypaper" glands on their stems.
例如，维纳斯捕蝇草和葡萄牙茅膏菜有共同的祖先，后者只通过茎上的“捕蝇纸”腺体被动地捕捉猎物。
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。
Using four paddle-like limbs to propel its bulky body through the water, the pliosaur made easy work of passing prey such as dolphin-like ichthyosaurs.
上龙用四根桨状的四肢推动它庞大的身体在水里游来游去，轻而易举地就能掠食形似海豚的鱼龙。
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.
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。
Go back in history and this was part of our survival repertoire; like most animals, we drew on our sense of smell, when visual information was scarce, to single out prey.
回顾历史，这是我们生存技能的一部分；像大多数动物一样，当视觉信息匮乏时，我们利用嗅觉来识别猎物。
Chemical analysis of invertebrate prey reveals remarkable variation in nutrient composition among species; even within species, nutrient composition may vary considerably.
对无脊椎动物猎物的化学分析显示，不同物种之间的营养成分存在显著差异；即使在种内，营养成分也可能有很大的差异。
What separates colubrids from other snakes we have been classifying as venomous, is not the lack of venom, but the lack of an effective way to deliver the venom into its prey.
将黄颌蛇与其他被我们归类为毒蛇的蛇区别开来的，并不是它们没有毒液，而是缺乏一种将毒液输送到猎物体内的有效方法。
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.
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。
Therefore, the planned introduction into that region of ant flies, which prey on Loma ants, would benefit public health.
因此，计划引进以洛马蚁为食的蚁蝇进入该地区将有利于公共健康。
Police officers lie in wait for the gangs who stalk their prey at night.
警官们埋伏起来等待捉拿那些夜间悄悄追踪作案对象的黑帮成员。
The eagle does not prey on its own nest.; It isn't advisable to harm one's next-door neighbours.; The eagle never hunts near his own nest.
老鹰不吃窝下草。
那头狮子向猎物猛扑过去。
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