In nature, there is much competition for food.

在自然界中，争夺食物的竞争非常激烈。

The competition for food and water has increased the risk of human-wildlife conflict.

对食物和水的争夺增加了人类与野生动物冲突的风险。

Riley also studies how bacteria sometimes also kill other bacteria in the competition for food.

莱利还研究了细菌有时是如何在争夺食物的过程中杀死其他细菌的。

Male lions defend their cubs against rivals who see their offspring as future competition for food and mates.

雄狮会保护幼崽免受那些把幼崽视作未来的食物与配偶竞争者的伤害。

This cannot have anything to do with competition for food or females.

这与食物或雌性的竞争无关。

Chimps also understand that they can manipulate the beliefs of others; they frequently deceive each other in competition for food.

黑猩猩也明白它们可以操纵他人的信仰。他们经常在争夺食物的过程中互相欺骗。

He may have wanted to reduce competition for food in the area or he may want to claim the vixen as a mate next year.

它可能是想减少本地的食物竞争，也可能是想要这只雌狐明年做它的配偶。

In order to survive the planet's changing conditions, species evolve to adapt to unexpected and radical shifts in their environments, which creates competition for food, water, and territory.

为了在地球不断变化的条件下生存，物种进化以适应环境中意想不到的根本变化， 这造成了对食物、水和领土的竞争。

For one, the researchers pointed  out that during the dry season, when competition for food should be at  the most intense, giraffes often browse low shrubs rather than tall trees.

首先，研究人员指出，在旱季，当食物竞争最激烈时，长颈鹿经常吃低矮的灌木而不是高大的树木。

If there is competition for food, then after a certain number of oxdying, there would be enough food for the survivors, and the balance between occupants and food would be restored.

如果存在食物竞争，那么经过一定数量的氧化后，幸存者就会有足够的食物，居住者和食物之间就会恢复平衡。

Unfortunately, none of the suggestions you read about successfully explains or proves how the orchids as for the suggestion that the die off was caused by competition for food among baby chocolates.

不幸的是，你读到的所有建议都没有成功解释或证明兰花的死亡是由婴儿巧克力之间的食物竞争造成的。

It may be that tropical birds, which face more intense competition for food and nesting sites than temperate ones do because the tropics have more species, form more stable and collaborative pair-bonds than do temperate birds.

这可能是热带鸟类形成了更稳定更协作的一夫一妻制，因为热带有更多物种，热带鸟类比温带鸟类存在更激烈的食物竞争和巢穴竞争。

So even though we've been pondering the giraffe's  neck for hundreds of years, most people had just accepted that it was competition for food rather  than competition for mates that was behind it.

因此，尽管我们数百年来一直在思考长颈鹿的脖子，但大多数人都承认， 其背后是对食物的竞争， 而不是对配偶的竞争。