I mean, doesn't it attract more predators?
我的意思是，它不会吸引更多的捕食者吗？
That relationship, however, is just a coincidence caused by the fact that small beasts usually have more predators than large ones do.
但这种关系只是一种巧合：小动物的天敌通常都远多与大动物。
More slug-looking than anything, this little guy is giving off a message to his predators that he will not make a tasty meal.
这只长得像鼻涕虫的小家伙正在向他的捕食者发出一个信息：他不会是美味的食物。
Why does their behavior indicate more of a concern with how much energy they expend than with being exposed to predators?
为什么它们的行为表明它们更关心的是消耗多少能量而不是担心暴露在捕食者面前呢？
They're willing to make more trips to haul back less wood, which carries a greater risk of being exposed to predators.
它们宁愿多走几次，每次只带回较少的木料，这就增加了在捕食者面前暴露的风险。
Presumably, the more often it wanders from home, the more it's likely to be exposed to predators.
推测来讲，它离家越频繁，就越有可能暴露在捕食者面前。
For example, it can impair orientation and sense of smell in young clownfish, making them more vulnerable to predators.
例如，它能削弱幼年小丑鱼的方向感和嗅觉，让它们更容易受到捕食者的攻击。
Predators detect common forms of prey more easily, the scientists figure.
科学家们认为狩猎者更容易发现一般性的猎物。
Lots of animals learn from their more experienced peers to gain skills such as hunting, foraging or evading predators.
许多动物通过向它们经验更丰富的同伴学习而获得诸如捕猎、觅食或躲避天敌的一些技能。
Trouble has closed in on these mammals in the form of equally warm-blooded and even more efficient and adaptable predators, humans.
同样是暖血动物而且效率更高、适应性更强的捕食者，人类，成为这些哺乳动物的日益迫近的威胁。
The natural impulses that helped early humans find food and avoid predators are causing us to regress to a state no more sophisticated than a rat in a laboratory, he said.
他还说，帮助早期人类寻觅食物，躲避捕食者的自然本能正让我们朝实验室白鼠的简单状态不断退化。
Mobbs unleashed two kinds of predators on his players, a less adept one that was easy to escape, and a smarter one that was more likely to capture its victim.
在游戏中，莫伯斯放出了两种不同的捕食者，一种较为笨拙，容易逃脱，另一种则较为聪明，能轻易抓住玩家。
Our population continues to grow, even as the shark population declines, so there are more chances of us encountering marine predators.
我们的人口一直在增长，而鲨鱼的数量却一直在下降，我们碰到这些食肉动物的可能性就更高了。
Such spotty distribution prevents the plants from mixing genes, making them more vulnerable to the arrival of diseases, parasites, and predators associated with climate change, Lambe noted.
兰毕表示，植株的点状分布状态阻止了植株间的基因混合，在与气候变化相关的疾病、虫害及掠食者来临时，它们会无力抵御。
Since the phytoplankton are more widely distributed, predators (zooplankton) have a harder time locating and feeding on them.
由于浮游植物的分布变得更为广泛，它们的天敌（浮游动物）的定位和进食也变得困难起来。
Trouble has closed in on these mammals in the form of equally warm-blooded and even more efficient and adaptable predators.
同样是暖血动物而且效率更高、适应性更强的捕食者，人类，成为这些哺乳动物的日益迫近的威胁。
Daniel MacNulty of the University of Minnesota and his colleagues have found that for predators which need to run after their prey, being big can be more of a hindrance than a help.
明尼苏达大学的Daniel MacNulty及其同事发现，对于那些需要追逐猎物的捕食者来说，庞大的体型可能拖累而非助益其捕猎行动。
And previous studies have shown that the presence of predators ups stress levels in prey, weakening their immune systems and making them more vulnerable to disease-and death.
加上之前的研究表明，捕食者的出现使被捕食者的压力水平升高，降低了它们的免疫系统机能，使它们更易生病乃至于死亡。
Our ancestors may have had daily need of fear to flee predators, anger to conquer foes and disgust to avoid diseases, but we live in a more subtle world in which other emotions have come to the fore.
我们的祖先，每天都有这种需要，逃离肉食动物的恐惧、征服仇敌的愤怒、防范疾病等等。然而今天的我们，生活在更为精彩丰富的世界，在这个世界里，其他的情绪则变得更加重要了。
Especially after a hard, lean winter, these predators may be more aggressive than normal and could be dangerous.
特别是在一个艰苦的、没有水的冬天之后，这些猛兽可能会比平时更有进攻性、更加危险。
Software firms may feel more at home working with partners in the computer industry: mobile operators are widely seen as lumbering giants, if not greedy predators.
在电脑产业中软件公司也许更倾向于在家与伙伴一同工作：移动运营商被普遍看作是笨拙的巨人，如果不是贪婪的食肉动物的话。
Predators didn't seem to targetthe unusually coloured bees more than the native populations we tested.
捕食者似乎对异常色彩蜜蜂的兴趣并没有大于我们所测试的原生种群。
Notably, the snake populations studied all give birth to live young (other species like pythons, lay eggs) and are sit-and-wait predators, making them more vulnerable to change in their environments.
值得注意的是，接受数量考察的都是卵胎生种类（另外一些种类，比如蟒蛇，则是卵生）以及静候捕猎的种类，这会让他们更容易受到环境变化带来的影响。
After years of weak growth, many European firms look sub-scale compared with American, and increasingly Asian, rivals-making them more likely to be prey than predators.
在多年的弱增长之后，许多的欧洲公司规模看起来比美国小，而且越来越多来自的亚洲竞争对手，使得它们更有可能是猎物而不是捕食者。
Every plant, Ames said, is full of 100 or more chemicals, including "natural pesticides," which the plants make to defend themselves against predators.
Ames说，每一种植物，都富含100种以上的化学物质，包括“天然农药”，这是植物为了保护自己免于被取食者侵害而产生的。
Every plant, Ames said, is full of 100 or more chemicals, including "natural pesticides," which the plants make to defend themselves against predators.
Ames说，每一种植物，都富含100种以上的化学物质，包括“天然农药”，这是植物为了保护自己免于被取食者侵害而产生的。
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