Carnivorous plants employ several different techniques to capture their prey. These include traps that are pitfall, snap (or "mechanical"), flypaper, bladder or lobster cage in nature or action.

Shrews have such a high metabolic rate that they die if they stop eating for a few hours, meaning that they don’t survive long in traps. The team set more than 100 pitfall traps, designed for ...

The three students traveled to the eastern region of the Sierra Nevada, where the Mount Lyell shrew roams, and set up 150 pitfall traps. They planned to check the traps every two hours because the ...

Sampling was performed by installing pitfall traps (height: 18.5 cm; upper diameter ... The significance value of IndVal for each species was determined by the Monte Carlo test, with 4,999 ...

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A linear sequence repeatedly increases or decreases by the same amount. The number added (or subtracted) at each stage of the linear sequence remains the same. STEP 1 - You can solve problems ...

The research team obtained special permits to trap, handle, and document these little critters. The Mount Lyell shrew is difficult to catch, but the biggest challenge is in keeping specimens alive.