Prey animals routinely attacked by venomous predators are under powerful pressure from natural selection.

经常被有毒捕食者袭击的猎物都承受着来自自然选择的巨大压力。

A carnivore knows that no prey animal gives up easily.

食肉动物都知道猎物不会轻易投降。

There are no leaves for cover and no young prey animals.

没有树叶可以掩护，没有幼小的猎物。

The pride has one last prey animal in its sight before the rains.

雨水到来前，狮群盯上了它们的终极猎物。

The other prey animals cowered behind a tree, leaving Judy to face the bullies alone.

其他小动物缩在一棵树后面，只留下朱迪独自面对这帮坏蛋。

It lived on an island and the prey animals that lived with it were relatively slow.

它生活在一个岛上，岛上共存的猎物行动较慢。

They learned that the natural world is made up of 90 percent prey animals and 10 percent predator animals.

最后，他们发现自然世界是由90%的被捕食者和10%的捕食者组成的。

So what we are studying now is whether natural selection imposed by predation could explain the occurrence of iridescence in prey animals.

“因此，我们现在正在研究的是，捕食所施加的自然选择是否能解释猎物身上出现彩虹色的原因。”

And I was feeling like a prey animal with no pack.

我觉得自己像一只没有族群的猎物。

But what power do you see in a goat or sheep, prey animals with no defenses, creatures that hold still while you slaughter them?

但是，山羊或绵羊，这些没有自卫能力的猎物、这些悄无声息任凭你们宰杀的动物，你们在它们身上看到了什么力量？

As rabbits are prey animals, they will think you are a predator and lose trust in you.

由于兔子是猎物， 它们会认为你是掠食者， 对你失去信任。

This is when the animal needs some brain power to know how to attack, when to attack, what part of the prey animal to attack.

这时候这种动物就需要用脑力来判断如何进攻，何时进攻，进攻猎物哪个部位。

To these prey animals, an orchid mantis doesn't just look like a flower, it looks bigger and brighter than a flower — and there lies the trick.

对这些猎物来说，兰花螳螂不仅仅只是看起来像一朵花，它看起来比一朵花更大更亮 —— 而这就是窍门所在。

So perhaps with fewer big prey animals available and with less forest cover from which to ambush them, it, too, eventually died out.

因此，也许由于可用的大型猎物越来越少， 而且可供伏击它们的森林覆盖范围也越来越少，它最终也灭绝了。

Protecting lions from poachers, restoring their habitats and protecting their prey animals, and teaching people how to avoid conflicts with lions are all good ways to help them survive.

保护狮子不受偷猎者捕杀，重建栖息地，保护狮子的猎物，以及向人类普及如何避免冲撞狮子都是帮助它们存活下来的好办法。

Prey animals are also adapted to escape from their predators; they have eyes on the side of their heads, which gives them a wider view of what's around them, so they can try and spot a predator before it attacks.

被捕食的动物也适应逃离它们的捕食者；它们的眼睛长在头部的一侧，这让它们能更清楚地看到周围的东西，这样它们就能在捕食者攻击之前发现它。

Like great whites though, the meg is believed to have targeted its prey from below, swimming up from the depths at great speed before slamming into a prey animal like a bulldozer made out of teeth and fury.

不过，与大白鲨一样，巨蟒被认为是从下方瞄准猎物的，它们会以极快的速度从深处游上来， 然后像用牙齿和愤怒制成的推土机一样猛撞猎物。