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If the sentinel detects a predator, it gives a loud alarm to warn the troop and indicate whether the threat comes from the air or the ground: if from the air, the meerkats rush to the nearest hole ; if from the ground, the troop flees.
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If and predator
If a predator overhunts its prey, the prey population will lower to numbers that are too scarce for the predators to find.
If a predator hunts its prey species to numbers too low to sustain the population in the short term, they can cause not only the extinction or extirpation of the prey, but also the extinction of their own species, a phenomenon known as coextinction.
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If a potential predator visits, both parents respond aggressively, issuing alarm calls and striking with talons.
If pursued into the water, a kangaroo may use its forepaws to hold the predator underwater so as to drown it.
If chased by a bird of prey or other predator, it will bolt straight down the nearest hole like a rodent until the danger has passed.
If the parent sees that a potential predator is not following them, they will move closer and get louder until they get the attention of the predator.
If a potential predator approaches the nest, the adult will walk away from the scrape, calling to attract the intruder and feigning a broken wing.
If a predator tries to take it by the body, the lizard drives that side of its body down into the ground so the predator cannot easily get its lower jaw underneath the lizard.
If the predator persists, the often hissing crane will attack, stabbing with their bill ( which is powerful enough to pierce the skull of a small carnivore ) and kicking with their feet.
If a predator of the spotted salamander manages to dismember a part of a leg, tail, or even parts of the brain / head, then it can grow back a new one, although this takes a massive amount of energy.
If a predator were to bite off an arm tip, the vampire squid can regenerate it.
If a prey animal moves or makes a noise in such a way that a predator can detect and capture it, that fits the definition of " communication " given above.
If seized by a predator its tail is deliberately cast and wriggles violently attracting attention while the lizard may escape.
If there is a likelihood that market entrants will prevent the predator from recouping its investment through supra competitive pricing, then there is no probability of success and the antitrust claim would fail.
If this is not sufficient, the adults will physically combat the predator, battering with their powerful wings and chomping down with their large bills, and have managed to kill predators equal to their own weight in confrontations.
A group effort attempts to answer the most common psychological questions: If there is a risk of a sexual predator re-offending if put back in society ; If an offender is competent to stand trial ; whether or not an offender was sane / insane at the time of the offense.
If two aposematic species that encounter the predator in equal number equally often come to mimic each other, it becomes completely arbitrary to call one a mimic and another a model.
If a potential predator approaches the nest, the adult will walk away from the scrape, calling to attract the intruder and feigning a broken wing.
If a predator is very close, spiny lobsters will flex their muscular tail in order to escape the predator, backwards.
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