Food Hunting Predators
Article Title: Shopping for Food in the Ocean
Charles Darwin pointed out that only the fittest survive. That is why every organism is equipped with a defense mechanism to be able to live on. The smallest and biggest of creatures exhibit this mechanism. The predators, on the other hand, have the hunting mechanism that enables them to survive while off hunting with the others.
A study was conducted by the University of St Andrews, unveiling new knowledge in the hunting strategies and behavior of predators in the deep sea. The study was deemed the largest, providing results that would wow the civilians. [S]harks and other marine animals find food using similar search patterns that humans employ, was the result found in the study. Primarily, the study involved the examination of the behavior and pattern marine predators evolved to get their most productive search.
Imagine life on the vast open seas: and you are in the search of food. Wouldn't that be difficult? It was claimed that looking for foods in the seas are much more difficult than when looking for food on land.
The article also showed the feeding pattern of the predators: starting from a long journey to a particular feeding area, then moving from spot-to-spot to take on the rest of the food. Atlantic krill is the primal prey focused on by the study.
Source:
University of St Andrews (28 February 2008). Shopping for Food in the Ocean. Online, retrieved 20 August 2008 from http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/Title,19821,en.html
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