Assertion: bird's food | /r/HasProperty | scarce
Facets:
value: dangerously
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Oudemans suggested that as Mauritius has marked dry and wet seasons, the dodo probably fattened itself on ripe fruits at the end of the wet season to survive the dry season, when food was scarce; contemporary reports describe the bird's "greedy" appetite.
text: The first chick to hatch is bigger than the others and may actually kill it's younger siblings if food is scarce.
text: When food is scarce, the first chicks to hatch are most likely to survive.
text: This distribution in age means that if food is scarce, the older, larger chicks commandeer the bulk of the food.
text: When there is plenty of food available, snowy owls tend to lay more eggs than when food is scarce.
text: Because the vast majority of bears live in high northern latitudes, they need a way to survive the winter months when food is dangerously scarce.
text: Under favourable conditions all chicks from a clutch of three eggs fledge, but if food is scarce one or more of the chicks will die from starvation.
text: To conserve energy when food is scarce, and nightly when not foraging, they can go into torpor, a state similar to hibernation, slowing their metabolic rate to 1/15th of its normal rate.