Assertion: mantis | /r/CapableOf | stalk prey
Facets:
value: slowly
type: MANNER
value: with no prior movement
type: MANNER
value: patiently
type: MANNER
value: by keeping its eyes
type: MANNER
value: occasionally
type: DEGREE
value: with almost one hundred percent success
type: OTHER
value: actively
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Occasionally mantids will stalk prey, but this is not common.
text: Apart from that, praying mantis is fearless creature and it hunts other bugs and prey with almost one hundred percent success.
text: Mantises will attack prey that is much bigger than itself
text: If a mantis recognizes a prey it then moves its head to get the image into the high-resolution-area of the eye which is fovea.
text: Once it has prey in sight, a mantis will track its prey by keeping its eyes fixed on it and moving its head to follow.
text: Praying mantises actively hunt their prey.
text: This trait is an attack posture that allows a mantis to quickly strike its prey with no prior movement.
text: Praying mantises wait to ambush or patiently stalk their prey; but once they’re ready to strike, they do so with lightning speed, attacking with those big front legs so quickly that it’s hard to see with the naked eye.
text: The mantids attack their prey by suddenly elongating and jutting out their folded-up forelegs, which are actually fairly long segments.
text: Mantids usually wait motionless for unsuspecting prey to get within striking distance–a “sit-and wait” and wait or ambush strategy, but can also slowly stalk prey.