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Even if a predator may wish to eat its prey, locomotive animals may be extremely difficult to catch. Animals living in groups have increased vigilance, and even solitary animals are capable of rapid escape when needed. Even if it does make a capture, its prey may attract competing predators, giving it a chance to escape in the struggle.
Persistence predators can hunt prey many times their size. No extant members of Archelosauria are known to be long-distance hunters, though various bird species may employ speedy pursuit predation. Living crocodilians and carnivorous turtles are specialized ambush predators and rarely if ever chase prey over great distances.
Japanese macaques can survive in cold temperatures of below −15°C (5°F), and are among very few primates that can do so. Chionophiles are any organisms ( animals , plants , fungi , etc.) that can thrive in cold winter conditions (the word is derived from the Greek word chion meaning " snow ", and -phile meaning "lover").
With Friday night expected to be the chilliest of the latest cold snap to grip the UK, photographers from the PA news agency have taken a look at how animals are coping in the snow and freezing ...
The AKC says the Hanover estate wanted a Bloodhound-esque dog who could track wounded prey. Like all energetic hunting dogs on this list, it’s wise to get them outdoors and try agility exercises ...
Animal navigation is the ability of many animals to find their way accurately without maps or instruments. Birds such as the Arctic tern , insects such as the monarch butterfly and fish such as the salmon regularly migrate thousands of miles to and from their breeding grounds, [ 1 ] and many other species navigate effectively over shorter ...
The High-Tech Tools Scientists Use to Track Wild Animals Science in recent years has seen an explosion of wildlife tracking-devices that are enabling new insights and scientific breakthroughs.
An animal track is an imprint left behind in soil, snow, or mud, or on some other ground surface, by an animal walking across it. Animal tracks are used by hunters in tracking their prey and by naturalists to identify animals living in a given area.