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 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 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 work ranges from disaster relief to trail building to habitat restoration.

Their long bushy tail with six alternating yellowish red transverse ochre rings provides balance and excellent camouflage against its habitat of moss-and lichen-covered trees.

Their populations have experienced a steady decline since the 19th century in the face of trapping, range reduction and habitat fragmentation, such that they are essentially absent in the southern end of their European range.

Their habitat plays a significant role in their color, weight, and shape.

Their habitat includes primary and secondary forest, riverine forest, and wooded grasslands ; they are found more in higher density logged forests than in other primary forests.

Their bodies are well adapted to the aquatic habitat where they spend most of their lives.

Their wings may be rounded or pointed, with wing shape closely correlated with foraging habitat and migratory tendencies.

Their natural habitat is beside streams and on the edges of forest, in lowland or montane open areas.

Their typical habitat is mountainous regions in an area far above the tree-line, but below the snow-line.

Their habitat varies from forest undergrowth to scrub, high-altitude grasslands, and deserts.

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 habitat is like that of most neotenic species — a high altitude body of water surrounded by a risky terrestrial environment.

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

Their favoured habitat is near water.

Their ability to adapt to a large variety of habitats has allowed for their dispersal and establishment throughout the world — resulting in a habitat range from coastal wetlands to alpine forests, from sea level to 1900 metres above sea level.

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 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.