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What I find so exciting is that the Census of Marine Life has looked at more than the tagging of pacific predators; it's also looked in the really unexplored mid-water column, where creatures like this flying sea cucumber have been found.
Well, it uses it to defend itself from its predators.
They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators.
The European rabbit has no natural predators in Australia, and it competes with native wildlife and damages native plants and degrades the land.
These animals help support top predators such as whales, tuna, swordfish and sharks.
Satellite tracking devices on animals such as sharks are now showing us that many top predators regularly dive deep into the twilight zone to feed.
And actually, as it turns out, this mechanism between the two species, so to speak, of rioters and police, is identical to predators and prey in the wild.
We actually know an awful lot about the dynamics of predators and prey.
But most bats are voracious insect predators.
The pastoral communities are using this poison to target predators, and in return, the vultures are falling victim to this.
They hide from predators.
What we had failed to understand was that these seasonal humidity environments of the world, the soil and the vegetation developed with very large numbers of grazing animals, and that these grazing animals developed with ferocious pack-hunting predators.
Now, the main defense against pack-hunting predators is to get into herds, and the larger the herd, the safer the individuals.
There is only one option, I'll repeat to you, only one option left to climatologists and scientists, and that is to do the unthinkable, and to use livestock, bunched and moving, as a proxy for former herds and predators, and mimic nature.
So predators like lions follow them, and this is what they do.
And my idea is also being used now all over Kenya for scaring other predators like hyenas, leopards, and it's also being used to scare elephants away from people's farms.
Including the return of the large predators, like the groupers, the sharks, the jacks.
And the ecological benefits would be huge, because these species of large predators, like tuna and sharks, are key to the health of the entire ecosystem.
The first is competitive, because they're looking for mates, and the second is cooperative, because if they're all vocalizing in sync together, it makes it really difficult for predators like coyotes, foxes and owls to single out any individual for a meal.
So really, the way we're looking at protected areas nowadays is to think of it as tending to a circle of life, where we have fire management, elephant management, those impacts on the structure of the ecosystem, and then those impacts affecting everything from insects up to apex predators like lions.
I mean, if a female doesn't choose a particular male, or if she has the ability to store sperm and she simply has enough, then it makes more sense for her to spend her time doing other biologically relevant things: avoiding predators, taking care of offspring, gathering and ingesting food.
So going back to our biological minds, then, we might think that females should choose to have sex with the guys that have the shorter appendages, because she can use her time for other things: avoiding predators, taking care of young, finding and ingesting food.
Poisonous and venomous animals aren’t the only ones that can develop this resistance: their predators and prey can, too.
Stay away!" to any would-be predators.
It took many millions of years before these bright lights evolved into a smart communication tool that could be used not just to ward off potential predators but to bring in potential mates.
For generations at that point, the bear had been a shorthand for all the danger that people were encountering on the frontier, and the federal government was actually systematically exterminating bears and lots of other predators too, like coyotes and wolves.
We were just getting around to polishing off these last wild predators.
Sometimes they don't want to be seen when they move, because predators can see them.
And predator-prey behavior is an interesting thing, because as we take away some of the predators on these coral reefs around the world, the prey, or the forage fish, act very differently.
In fact, monarchs can take up the chemicals, put it in their own bodies, and it makes them toxic against their predators, such as birds.
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