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Meaning of "small prey"
'Small prey' refers to animals or creatures that are typically smaller in size and serve as food sources for predators. It can be used to describe organisms like small rodents, insects, birds, or fish that are hunted and consumed by larger or carnivorous species. The term is commonly used in biology, ecology, and wildlife contexts to describe predator-prey relationships and food chains
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It probably hunted small prey such as insects.
Small prey are devoured whole.
It will also take other small prey.
Snaring small prey with their tentacles.
Therefore large adults rarely tackle small prey.
Small prey are swallowed whole.
They kill their small prey using constriction.
Small prey may be smothered beneath the sand.
Acrobat ants hunt both large and small prey.
It takes small prey such as insects and other invertebrates.
The paucident planigale kills small prey with quick bites.
Todies eat small prey such as insects and lizards.
This stereoscopic vision would have helped it to find small prey.
They eat small prey such as insects and lizards.
It forages on the ground for insects and other small prey.
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Cats hunt small prey because they are small animals.
They use those long legs to speed in pursuit of small prey.
It feeds on small prey such as small crabs and other arthropods.
Such group formations are unnecessary when hunting rabbits or other small prey.
Club small prey.
Small prey will be pulled completely into the mouth before being eaten.
It feeds on small crabs and probably other small prey such as lizards.
A bird or other small prey animal is taken back to the litter.
Water is forced through the lamellae and small prey items are collected.
The small mouth suggests that they are very precise and selective in capturing small prey.
It will follow army ants to feed on small prey disturbed by the ant columns.
It seems the big predator may have had a taste for small prey.
The young will take small prey as soon as two days after hatching.
This pair has three voracious chicks that need small prey in abundance.
Presumably they feed on small prey and hibernate in the fall with the adults.
Larger lizards eat larger prey but also include small prey in their diets.
The lion easily captures small prey with one stroke of one of its massive paws.
The sweet secretions of the peduncular glands attract small prey that includes insects.
Wild ferrets also hunt small prey and often drink the blood of their kill.
Cats have highly developed senses that are used to stalk and kill small prey animals.
Sauropodlets are small prey for the Allosaurus.
Most pygmy owl species are nocturnal and hunt mainly large insects and other small prey.
Captive Asian golden cats kill small prey with the nape bite typical of cats.
Elasticity of the jaw would have allowed Carnotaurus to swallow small prey items whole.
Small prey items are also taken, especially when nesting.
These months are great for photographing small prey that offers this.
The young take small prey as soon as 2 days after hatching.
They mainly eat insects, and similar small prey.
They swallow small prey whole, but tend to tear up larger prey before consumption.
Some were apex predators ; others were hunters of small prey.
Motmots eat small prey such as insects and lizards, and will also take fruit.
Barn owls comb the dunes, listening for small prey.
The land is inhabited by small prey animals and fast, ferocious monsters with strange forms.
Given the small teeth, this species is considered a hunter of small prey.
Although coyotes can live in large groups, small prey is typically caught singly.
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