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Meaning of "prey items"

Prey items are the organisms or animals that are hunted and consumed by predators. In the context of food chains and ecosystems, prey items are an essential component as they provide nutrition and energy for the predator species. The term is commonly used in the field of ecology and animal behavior

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Some of their favorite prey items are invertebrates.
Prey items may have reached considerable size.
White storks influence the populations of their prey items.
Most smaller prey items are simply swallowed alive.
Their diets may vary due to the abundance of prey items.
Most of these prey items are taken in warm periods.
Water is forced through the lamellae and small prey items are collected.
The prey items are usually swallowed as three or four chunks.
By this means it can catch prey items such as small fish.
Unusual prey items include porcupines and small reptiles.
Shrikes are well known for their habit of impaling prey items on thorns.
Other natural prey items would benefit the captive newt.
These structures are expelled intact in forms that mimic host prey items.
All will incorporate prey items and other natural objects.
Prey items change as they grow from smaller to larger caimans.

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Many authors have described the prey items taken under natural circumstances.
Other prey items include small mammals and occasionally reptiles and insects.
Most possess large teeth used to tear flesh or grasp slippery prey items.
Larger prey items are removed from the soil for easier manipulating and swallowing.
They usually only attack other predators in the absence of regular prey items.
Possible prey items were evaluated and compared with the fossil record of social insects.
This helps them match marine predators to their most likely prey items.
Badgers used a wide range of prey items in the different habitats and seasons sampled.
The ants seem to ignore smaller insects and only target larger prey items.
Males are more timid so they need smaller prey items than females will take.
This variation can be attributed to different predator avoidance strategies employed by common prey items.
Antarcticum and Euphausia crystallorophias as prey items should be encouraged.
Other prey items include cephalopods and diverse Antarctic fish species.
Each mud cell contains one egg and is provided with several prey items.
Nepenthes lowii is known to catch very few prey items compared to other Nepenthes.
Preliminary results showed that the birds fed readily from a plastic container of prey items.
Prey items in lakes Huron and Ontario were predominantly freshwater shrimps.
Elasticity of the jaw would have allowed Carnotaurus to swallow small prey items whole.
Prey items of goshawks in southwestern New York.
Tandem hunting may be done regularly, especially with larger prey items.
Captured prey items are given to larvae, which are carnivorous.
Both parents feed the chicks, often bringing large prey items.
Small prey items are also taken, especially when nesting.
Boa c. constrictor neonates are notoriously known to regurgitate over-sized prey items.
The main prey items seem to be small mammals, especially rodents.
As mentioned, eastern hognoses prefer toads over all other prey items.
Twenty-five prey items were identified in bobcat and coyote scats.
They are largely opportunistic predators, and will take most prey items it can overpower.
In some areas, bird prey items make a sizeable contribution to the diet.
The association with soft substrates coincides with the availability of preferred prey items ( pandalid shrimps ).
Other prey items included octopus, prawn and crabs, and an unidentified penguin of.
They are, in turn, central prey items for higher trophic levels.
Of the prey items caught in the net, all elicited a similar initial response from larvae.
Euphausiids, herring, and hake were the major dogfish prey items.
Additional prey items reported include reptiles such as iguanas, tegus, and snakes.

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