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 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 preferred breeding habitat is wetland, but semi-domesticated birds will build a nest anywhere close to water.

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 diet nearly always consists of termites, insect larvae, and the carrion of larger animals.

Their goal was to regain access to Eden by finding the correct formula for perfect living, following specific rules governing agriculture, diet, and reproduction.

Their high-energy, vegetarian diet combined barley, boiled beans, oatmeal, ash ( believed to help fortify the body ) and dried fruit.

Their diet consists of both terrestrial and aquatic vegetation.

Their omnivorous diet, aggressive behaviour, and their feeding method of rooting in the ground all combine to severely alter ecosystems unused to pigs.

Their diet is a mixture of insects and other small animals, fruit, and tree gums.

Their diet consists mostly of ungulates, followed by primates, primarily monkeys of various species.

Their diet is high in water content.

Their unspecialized biology, flexible diet and reproductive strategy make them successful colonizers and survivors in diverse locations and conditions.

Their diet mainly consists of carrion and many are killed on highways when scavenging for roadkill.

Their broad diet allows them to take advantage of many sources of food provided by human habitation such as unsecured food waste ( garbage ) and pet food.

Their diet is largely domestic agrarian, but does consist of meat from domesticated cows, chickens and goats, wild game, and freshwater fish.

Their natural diet includes mammals and occasionally birds.

Their diet was different.

Their omnivorous diet is a mixture of other small animals, including birds and insects, fruit, seeds, flowers, eggs, nuts, and tree gums.

Their diet consists of plants and small insects.

Their diet typically consists of small crabs and shrimps, but they may also feed on fish if they can catch them.

Their diet consists of insects and other invertebrates picked from the floating vegetation or the water ’ s surface.

Their diet consists mainly of seeds, but may be supplemented with insects, especially when feeding the young.

Their diet is still limited, however, because most babies do not have molars or canines at this age and often have a limited number of incisors.

Their diet consists mainly of acorns ( oak seeds ) and pine nuts, extensively supplemented by invertebrates and their larvae, soft fruits and berries, and also human-provided scraps in parks and towns.

Their basic diet consists of arthropods, vertebrates, seeds, and fruit.

Their diet includes green vegetation and grains.

Their diet is omnivorous: they take a range of saps and exudates, lerps, and a high proportion of arthropods which they find under the loose bark of eucalypts: spiders, crickets, beetles, and the like.