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Pursuit predation becomes a better strategy than ambush predation when the predator is faster than the prey. [2] Ambush predators use many intermediate strategies. For example, when a pursuit predator is faster than its prey over a short distance, but not in a long chase, then either stalking or ambush becomes necessary as part of the strategy. [2]
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]
The cougar is largely solitary. Its activity pattern varies from diurnality and cathemerality to crepuscularity and nocturnality between protected and non-protected areas, and is apparently correlated with the presence of other predators, prey species, livestock and humans. It is an ambush predator that pursues a wide variety of prey.
Persistence predators can hunt prey many times their size. No extant members of Archelosauria are known to be long-distance hunters, though various bird species may employ speedy pursuit predation. Living crocodilians and carnivorous turtles are specialized ambush predators and rarely if ever chase prey over great distances.
For example, the hemipteran Arachnocoris berytoides resembles Faiditus caudatus, a spider commensal of ants. [34] In cryptic aggressive mimicry, the predator mimics an organism that its prey is indifferent to. This allows the predator to avoid detection until the prey are close enough for the predator to strike, effectively a form of camouflage.
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This article contains a list of contract killers, both living and deceased, sorted by the country in which they engaged in said crimes. The practice of contract killing involves a person (the contract killer) who is paid to kill one or more individuals. [1]