Having been looking around town for a victim all night without success, they decided to lie-in-wait for whoever might happen to step outside.
However, they are also extremely efficient, lie-in-wait, ambush predators, feeding mostly on the sorts of invertebrates commonly found in warm backwaters.
This lie-in was met with opposition from some city officials and some members of the general public.
They tend to stay in one place and wait for prey; they are lie-in-wait predators.
They are voracious predators and hunt using a classic example of lie-in-wait or ambush.
Mesopelagic fish are often highly mobile, whereas bathypelagic fish are almost all lie-in-wait predators, normally expending little energy in movement.
Their poor musculature and cumbersome morphology indicate that mature female footballfish are probably poor swimmers and largely sedentary, lie-in-wait predators.
Like many other lie-in-wait predators, they have an elongated, torpedo-like body with an elongated head containing one row of sharp, conical teeth.