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A farm that doesn't feed its fish, a farm that measures its success by the success of its predators.
Well, for animals that are trying to avoid predators by staying in the darkness, light can still be very useful for the three basic things that animals have to do to survive: and that's find food, attract a mate and avoid being eaten.
So now we had a system that we could actually take to some place that was kind of like an oasis on the bottom of the ocean that might be patrolled by large predators.
And unlike here, these are all predators, which is kind of interesting.
CA: And counterintuitively, when you bring back the predators, it actually increases rather than reduces the diversity of the underlying ecosystem often.
But then, if we shift the dial 200, 500 years back, then we get to the places where the corals are absolutely healthy and gorgeous, forming spectacular structures, and where the predators are the most conspicuous thing, where you see between 25 and 50 sharks per dive.
The good news is that, in addition to having more predators, there's more of everything.
So how are these fish, these predators going to help?
First of all, your pyramid, your inverted pyramid, showing 85 percent biomass in the predators, that seems impossible.
But that's due to natural predators like vultures that pick them off on a beach or predatory fish that are waiting offshore.
And they go in the base of that pyramid, and they drift up; they're passed up that way, on to predators and on to the top predators, and in so doing, they accumulate.
For example, some birds copy the alarm calls of other birds to spread information about approaching predators.
So to understand how fish may prevent this, I spy on them while they're eating algae, which can be difficult for them to do in open parts of the reef exposed to predators, some of which, on rare occasion, appear to realize I'm watching them.
So my colleagues and I put massive video camera stands in a coral reef to remotely monitor entire feeding grounds that produce a lot of algae but are exposed to predators.
So what we can see on this moving ocean is we can finally see where the predators are.
But what of those big predators, those fashionable species, that green list tuna that I was talking about earlier?
They're both predators, except foxes feed on rabbits, and immune cells feed on invaders, such as cancer cells.
It's not just that both the principal males are portrayed as complete jerks and sexual predators, but also that the women are portrayed as almost flawless, forming a utopian community which lacks conflict of any kind and which rests on relentless generosity and good humor.
Vivian ends up falling in love with an American artist who is oblivious to her involvement with the group of blood-thirsty predators.
Meanwhile, the U.S. military suspect that something is amiss on the island so they send their own team of men who give eaten by the supersized predators.
The title match between the two overgrown predators occurs in the last quarter hour after our heroes, who have been consistently whittled down by the monsters, find a helicopter and take off in time before the military pulverizes the island.
I can't believe someone could mess up a movie about aliens and predators so bad.
The key scene in Rodrigo Garcia's "Nine Lives" comes when Sissy Spacek, hidden away in a hotel room where she is carrying on an affair with Aiden Quinn, find a nature documentary on television, at which point Quinn notes the contrivance of such things--disparate footage is edited into one scene, predators and preys are thrown together in order to capture the moment--all to force connections where none actually exist.
Internet predators seems to be the underlying plot here.
Our society today is filled with all types of sexual predators that pray upon children, yet film makers make these types of movies that do nothing but provoke this type of behavior.
Brian Van Holt, Zorie Barber, and Jonathan Abrahams are three distinct, unrelenting sex-obsessed predators who along with the foil of their recently married buddy (superbly played by Judah Domke) are turned upside down on their own terms by a female predator (Amanda Peet).
For instance, Earth will tell you that a tropical sea is an ideal nursery for a young humpback whale, because there are few predators.
The point was in the novel that the surface sophisticated and weak idle species was the prey of the other species who were the predators.
In this excellent Twentieth-Century Fox film-noir, the metropolis is a labyrinth of despair in which scavengers and predators survive by living off one another.
Pluses include getting acquainted with other wildlife in the Kalahari Desert through the Whiskers family, whether it's their encounters with plovers, hunts for scorpions, or on the lookout for dangerous neighbors and predators.
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