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Many nocturnal ambush predators like this leopard cat have vertical pupils, enabling them to judge distance to prey accurately in dim light. [30] Ambush predators must time their strike carefully. They need to detect the prey, assess it as worth attacking, and strike when it is in exactly the right place.
This is a list of nocturnal animals and groups of animals. There is also a more specific list of nocturnal birds . This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Phrynus longipes are primarily nocturnal, and are considered ambush predators. They feed mostly on small insects and other arthropods as their primary source of food, but occasionally prey upon small vertebrates such as lizards and frogs. Cave populations primarily prey on cockroaches. [1]
Although the term "bird of prey" could theoretically be taken to include all birds that actively hunt and eat other animals, [4] ornithologists typically use the narrower definition followed in this page, [5] excluding many piscivorous predators such as storks, cranes, herons, gulls, skuas, penguins, and kingfishers, as well as many primarily ...
As ambush predators, crotalines typically wait patiently somewhere for unsuspecting prey to wander by. At least one species, the arboreal Gloydius shedaoensis of China, is known to select a specific ambush site and return to it every year in time for the spring migration of birds. Studies have indicated these snakes learn to improve their ...
I. filamentosus is a piscivorous ambush predator. It is nocturnal and typically lies partially buried on the sea floor or on a coral head during the day, covering itself with sand and other debris to further camouflage itself. It has no known natural predators.
Predators of harvestmen include a variety of animals, including some mammals, [19] [20] amphibians, and other arachnids like spiders [21] [22] and scorpions. [23] Opiliones display a variety of primary and secondary defences against predation, [ 24 ] ranging from morphological traits such as body armour to behavioral responses to chemical ...
Many species have a very specific food plant. The larvae of all but one [9] of the endemic species of Eupithecia from Hawaii are ambush predators of a wide variety of insects and spiders. [10] These ambush predators have raptorial legs, with which they grab prey that comes into contact with their hind end. [10]