Their fighting was tense and they did not retreat when disadvantaged by an advancing opposing force and preferred death over defeat.

Their preferred tactic was to avoid an open field battle, and to fight from the cover of a huge fortified camp.

Their main African base was in Mozambique, therefore the Portuguese navigators preferred to use the Mozambique Channel to go to India.

Their preferred habitat is forests in mountainous or hilly regions.

Their patents included two other major interrelated innovations: one concerning the use of parallel connected, instead of series connected, utilization loads, the other concerning the ability to have high turns ratio transformers such that the supply network voltage could be much higher ( initially 1, 400 to 2, 000 V ) than the voltage of utilization loads ( 100 V initially preferred ).

Their preferred diet is primarily deep-water squid, but also benthic and benthopelagic fish and some crustaceans, mostly taken near the sea floor.

Their preferred repertoire overlapped in some of the classics, but Mengelberg had his own favourites from Bach's St. Matthew Passion to Mahler symphonies, and was happy to leave Debussy and Stravinsky to Monteux.

Their preferred habitat is fairly open country, and they eat insects and fruit.

Their preferred habitat is fairly open country, and they eat insects and fruit.

Their distribution is restricted by the presence of their preferred prey, specific species of ticks, and the animal hosts of those ticks.

Their preferred habitat for breeding is in swamps and wooded ponds of the northern half of the United States and southern Canada.

Their preferred habitat is open grasslands with scattered trees and they are often seen hunting along roadsides.

Their main African base was in Mozambique, and therefore the Portuguese navigators preferred to use the Mozambique Channel to go to India.

Their preferred environment is just off the continental shelf on steep banks with water depths varying from and water temperature at least and preferably.

Their diet varies according to season ; arthropods and larvae are the preferred food items at the breeding grounds, while various hard-shelled molluscs are consumed at other feeding sites at other times.

By day Spirula lives in the deep oceans, reaching depths of 1, 000 m. At night, they rise to a depth of 100 to 300 m. Their preferred temperature is around 10 ° C, and they tend to live around oceanic islands, near the continental shelf.

Their grandmother preferred to raise them simply, and they made their own clothes.

Their application however was rejected as the then English Northern Premier League side Gretna were preferred by league members over the new Airdrie United.

Too busy playing in the Bay Area, the band preferred to perform cover material of obscure British songs, although Their signature " Let's Talk About Girls " was penned by Manny Freiser of the Tongues of Truth, an Arizona band.

* Their preferred weapon in close quarters is the Minbari Fighting Pike, also known as the Denn ' Bok.

Their preferred habitat is open grassland with water.

Their preferred habitat is a body of freshwater away from the coast with dense vegetation nearby.

Their preferred foods are fruit and flowers, a seasonal resource that is varied to cope with changes in food availability.

Their preferred habitat is largely contained within the range of the creosote bush, mainly dry, sandy desert scrubland below.

Their enduring popularity can be attributed to their playful disposition, as well as their rapid breeding, aesthetics, cheap price, and broad availability.

Their requirements are a simply an elevated perch from which to watch for prey and a ground substrate in which to dig their breeding burrow.

Their monogamous pair bond is strong during the breeding season and loosens over winter ; birds often choose a different mate than the year before.

Their populations have been healthy since the 1960s, and have soared in recent years to more than 4 million birds ( 2011 ), most likely because of favorable breeding, migration, and wintering habitat conditions.

Their breeding habitat is open areas and forest edges in western North America from southern Alaska to California.

Their breeding habitat is wooded lakes or ponds in the northern United States and Canada.

Their breeding habitat is alkaline marshes, acid bogs, lakes, ponds, rivers, marshes, brackish marshes, and the margins of estuaries and other aquatic environments in northern Saskatchewan, Manitoba, across Ontario and Quebec as well as the Atlantic Canadian Provinces, including the Great Lakes, and the Adirondacks in the United States.

Their breeding habitat is marshes and ponds in western United States and extreme southwestern Canada, and are rare visitors to the east coast of the United States.

Their breeding habitat is marshes and lakes with a metre or more water depth.

Their breeding habitat is grassland adjacent to shallow marshes and steppe lakes.

Their breeding range is the North Atlantic.

Their breeding habitat is close to marshes and lakes with plenty of vegetation to conceal the nest.

Their breeding habitat is wooded swamps, shallow lakes, marshes or ponds, and creeks in eastern North America, the west coast of the United States and western Mexico.

Their breeding habitat is in tundra pools and marshes, but also along sea coasts and in large mountain lakes in the North Atlantic region, Alaska, northern Canada, northern Europe and Russia.

Their ordinary voice is a low, harsh croak but during the breeding season they ( including the young one ) makes a plaintive, soft whistle.

Their hunting patterns, outside breeding periods and periods of abundant prey, have distinct crepuscular peaks, perhaps corresponding to mouse activity.

Their breeding habitat is cold fast moving streams in north-western and north-eastern North America, Greenland, Iceland and western Russia.

Their breeding habitat is the taiga.

Their breeding habitat is marshy lakes and ponds.

Their breeding habitat is wooded lakes and ponds primarily in northwestern North America but also in scattered locations in eastern Canada and Iceland.

Their breeding habitat is wooded lakes and ponds in Alaska and Canada, almost entirely included in the boreal forest or taiga habitat.

Their breeding habitat is inland lakes and marsh ponds in tundra from Alaska through western Canada to western Montana ; few breed east of James Bay and the Great Lakes.

Their breeding habitat is swamps and marshes from the eastern United States to north-eastern South America.

Their breeding habitat is large inland and coastal wetlands from the lower Great Lakes and southwestern United States to South America.