Assertion: owl's prey | /r/HasProperty | dismembered
Facets:
value: often
type: DEGREE
value: in order to ingest it
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Small prey is usually torn into chunks and eaten completely including bones and fur, while prey larger than about 100 g (4 oz), such as baby rabbits, Cryptomys blesmols, or Otomys vlei rats, is usually dismembered and the inedible parts discarded.
text: Often prey is dismembered in order to more easily ingest it whole, i.e. decapitating mice, removing the legs from frogs while birds like sparrows are also regularly decapitated (with the head often eaten separately) and nearly all avian prey is plucked before being consumed.
text: Smaller prey may be swallowed whole, but larger prey is dismembered and eaten in bites.