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They use sound to study their habitat, to keep in communication with each other, to navigate, to detect predators and prey.
This beautiful but cumbersome tail doesn't exactly help the peacock avoid predators and approach peahens.
We think that walking is important for getting away from predators and finding mates for breeding.
This bird sits atop tall trees in the Kalahari Desert, surveying the landscape for predators and calling when it senses a threat.
By watching behavior and its outcomes, we learn that animals manipulate predators, prey, and rivals, and that their capacity for deception can be surprisingly complex.
They have been rarely photographed, partly because they are considered one of the most dangerous predators in the ocean.
Like a lot of predators, they walk on their toes.
Armored predators with razor-edge jaws dominated alongside huge fishes with arm bones in their fins.
Able to exert over 300 lbs. of pressure in one bone-crushing bite and sniff out prey more than a mile away, these formidable predators didn’t have much competition.
New predators, hyenas, getting faster and faster still.
So he got rid of the electricity, he got rid of current on the inside and kept it on the outside, so it would protect them against coyotes and other predators.
They can't risk getting in a fight, so they lose one in nine kills to tougher predators like hyenas.
Well, this is one of the sloth's main predators.
When it moved into its new host, the Eastern Hemlock tree, it escaped its predators, and the new tree had no resistance to it.
We have no significant predators, we're the masters of our physical environment; the things that normally cause species to become extinct are no longer any threat to us.
This is from a BBC show called "Predators," and what we're looking at here are examples of synchrony that have to do with defense.
When you're small and vulnerable, like these starlings, or like the fish, it helps to swarm to avoid predators, to confuse predators.
As I say, it's just those three simple rules, plus the one about watch out for predators.
A turtle’s shell has obvious advantages for guarding against predators, but the rigid casing also presents some challenges.
Land-dwelling tortoises, meanwhile, have domed shells that can slip free of predators’ jaws and help them turn right-side up if they fall on their backs.
We survived the African savannas, despite being weaker and slower than our predators and most of our prey, by an amazing ability to engage in mutual aid, and that urge to cooperate has been hardwired into our minds through natural selection.
This masks their scent from predators and protects them from parasites, so they can sleep soundly.
So it actually uses the light from the bacteria to counter-illuminate itself in an antipredation device, so predators can't see its shadow, calculate its trajectory and eat it.
Not only are they one of the most dominant invertebrate predators, but other animals, like crabs and birds, think they're pretty tasty.
But even for successful males who manage to avoid winged predators, this mating frenzy will prove lethal.
This tree hollow, safe from rain, wind, and predators, is ideal.
Crabs, stingrays and other fishes with crushing teeth appeared, smashing shells and leading to an arms race between predators and prey.
Their acidic stomachs protect them from living animals too: their rancid vomit scares off most predators.
The effect, the payback, perhaps, for years of vampire predators like Bernie Madoff, whom we saw earlier.
Okay, so let's review: a farm that doesn't feed its animals, and a farm that measures its success on the health of its predators.
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