In modern warfare, an ambush is most often employed by ground troops up to platoon size against enemy targets, which may be other ground troops, or possibly vehicles.

Velvet worms are ambush predators, hunting only by night, and are able to capture animals at least their own size, although it may take almost all of their slime-secreting capacity to capture a large prey item.

Predators may hunt actively for prey, or sit and wait for prey to approach within striking distance, as in ambush predators.

The team will have chosen a route or two and in some cases it may involve 3 routes that are designated for travel along, which avoids the most dangerous " choke points ", such as one-lane bridges or tunnels, because these routes have no way of escape and they are more vulnerable to ambush.

Other Buteo species may prefer to ambush prey by pouncing down to the ground directly from a perch.

They may also use fence posts or other lookouts to ambush prey.

The lack of forage, and water for his troops, and the fact that dysentery had broken out in his army may have induced Manuel to decide to force the pass regardless of the danger of ambush.

The Māori may have been deafened by the bombardment, but as soon as it ended they were able to unleash a devastating ambush.

Snowy Egrets may also stand still and wait to ambush prey, or hunt for insects stirred up by domestic animals in open fields.

They may also stand still and wait to ambush prey.

And the scene in which Van Heflin's character escorts Ford to the railroad station while avoiding an ambush by his gang may have inspired the ambush of Frank by his own men in Leone's film.

In Tucson, while Wyatt, Warren Earp, and Holliday were escorting the wounded Virgil Earp and his wife Allie on the first stage of their trip to California, they prevented another ambush, and this may have been the start of the vendetta against Morgan's killers.

The counterattack ran into an ambush by Soviet troops using a captured German Panther tank, although this may have been a ' friendly-fire ' incident.

These birds stalk their prey in shallow water, often running or shuffling their feet ; they may also stand still and wait to ambush prey.

When hunting terrestrial prey, alligators may also ambush them from the edge of the water by grabbing them and pulling the prey into the water, the preferred method of predation of larger crocodiles.

In 2009 Border Patrol Agent Rosas was murdered in an ambush while on patrol ; a bounty may have been paid to the assassins.

Various aspects of dromaeosaurid morphology, such as the enlarged retractable toe-claws and shorter legs, are also possibly indicative of ecological separation from the troodontids, and suggest that dromaeosaurids may have been ambush predators.

A second possibility was that the operation may have had the more limited aim of drawing D Company into an ambush in an attempt to destroy it and secure a small victory over an isolated force.

In accounting for the fact that Nui Dat had ultimately escaped attack the intelligence officer that interrogated Loc surmised that D Company may have entered the killing zone before the ambush had been prepared and that because of this the third battalion may have been unable to be released.

Other possibilities may have included the Viet Cong being forced to abandon that part of the plan by the weight of the Australian artillery or that they may have overestimated the size of the Australian force and retained the third battalion to complete the ambush.

In particular the delay of over a day between the mortaring of Nui Dat and the ambush may suggest another purpose for the bombardment, which may have been used as a way of testing the Australian reaction and the speed with which accurate counter-battery fire could be ranged against them in preparation for a full scale attack.

This particular ambush was to have an impact on the course of Western history.

Other predators, like crocodiles, have sideways facing eyes and hunt by ambush rather than pursuit.

Their fins could also have been used to attach themselves to plants or similar while they were lying in ambush for prey.

He offered to negotiate in person with the invader and attempted to have him killed in an ambush.

Ryker decides to have Wilson kill Starrett in an ambush at the saloon, under the pretense of negotiating.

Three days later, they ambush a group of cowboys and kill Bunting – although it becomes apparent that Logan and Munny no longer have much stomach for murder.

He believes that other historians have become carried away by Wittmann ’ s ambush and cynically notes that the first Tiger lost in combat during the campaign was that commanded by Wittmann.

Regardless of the degree to which the ambush wrecked British intentions, both Beevor and Patrick Delaforce agree that its effects would have been mitigated had Wittmann's force been detected earlier.

Although Hannibal might have arrived at the Trebbia with as many as 90, 000 men, both sources agree that he fought the battle with 40, 000 men: 20, 000 Celtic, Spanish and African heavy-armed infantry, 10, 000 cavalry plus another 1, 000 in ambush, 8, 000 Balearic slingers and spearmen plus another 1, 000 in ambush.

This division seems to have quickly lost cohesion and been broken, soldiers fleeing one ambush often running into another.

Two of the search groups believed that the pirates would have to pass through a certain road in order to escape and planned to ambush them there.

After the killing of 16 Black and Tans in an ambush at Macroom, County Cork, martial law was declared ( 10 December 1920-Wilson called Churchill and Hamar Greenwood “ amazing liars ” in his diary for saying they had always been in favour of it ) in the four Munster Counties of Cork, Tipperary, Kerry and Limerick – Wilson would have preferred all of Ireland apart from Ulster.

After a botched attempt by Vic and Ronnie to have Shane killed in a shootout between Mexican and Armenian gangs, Shane recruits a local criminal to make a hit on Ronnie while he prepares to ambush and kill Vic.

" Haight and / or Dame might have been involved in the subsequent ambush of part of the convicts ' party just south of Mountain Meadows.

Though the characters have personalities rather different from their real-life counterparts, the novel borrows heavily from actual events, in particular Loving's ambush by Indians, and Goodnight's attentive care as Loving died from an arrow-induced infection.

The five German snipers who were chosen to ambush the kidnappers had been selected because they shot competitively on weekends.

In addition, Arminius, who had been instrumental in the Teutoburg ambush, and who had been considered a very real threat to stability by Rome, was now defeated.

Melanism in leopards has been hypothesized to be causally associated with a selective advantage for ambush.

Because of this information, the South had been able meet the Union Army at a place where they could ambush Sturgis and make retreat as difficult as possible ( Tishomingo Creek was in their rear with only a single bridge as a crossing point.

Gronw, who had been waiting in ambush, threw the spear he had made at him.

This incident had not been ordered by the Dáil but the course of events soon drove the Dáil to recognise the Volunteers as the army of the Irish Republic and the ambush as an act of war against Great Britain.

* An entire scene in the morning after the night of the alley ambush by the bikies, where Keung arrives at the supermarket to find it has been robbed by some youths.

According to the Army history of the operation, the infiltration movement had apparently been discovered and an ambush prepared.

However, French documents reveal that the French and Indian force was too late to prepare an ambush, and had been just as surprised as the British.

In the words of the Economist: " never has an ambush been more carefully laid for such an event.

Just as they were grabbing valuables, Cao Cao's 600 elite cavalry, which had been lying in ambush, attacked.

The army was composed of a number of ' divisions ,' each of which was self-reliant and could act as a small independent army ; it has been argued that it was this organisation which allowed the greater part of his army to survive the ambush inflicted on it.

Esad ( Hasan had previously been mysteriously killed in an ambush inside the town ) finally surrendered to Montenegro in April 1913, after Montenegro suffered a high death toll with more than 10, 000 casualties.

In the battle, Bohemond III fell into an ambush and found himself and his knights surrounded by the army of Mosul, but Thoros II and Mleh, who had been more cautious, escaped from the battlefield.

On 8 September, he was informed by scouts that a detachment of 1, 000 men under Col. Ephraim Williams, of Massachusetts, had been sent against him, and, disposing his men in ambush in the form of a horseshoe, he surprised the enemy and put them to flight.