predatory
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adjective
predatory birds
relating to or denoting an animal or animals preying naturally on others.
a life destroyed by predatory biographers and yellow journalists
seeking to exploit or oppress others.
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Unfortunately, 'predatory' adults are already using the recent disaster to exploit these imperiled children.
Now a recent study suggests that one creature - with a bite that may rival that of most 'predatory' mammals - may have been sorely misjudged.
Previous studies indicate that expanded brain volume in 'predatory' mammals leaves less room for jaw muscles.
Scientists still aren't clear, for example, whether the birds hunted in packs like velociraptors or individually like large 'predatory' cats.
Large, 'predatory' mammals form a guild in which competition is expected to be relatively intense.
The leafcutter ants are accountable for 25 per cent of all leaf destruction in the South American rainforests, and 'predatory' ants eat more insects than all other animals put together.
Adam and his team of falconers use 'predatory' birds like gyrfalcons, eagles, and peregrine falcons to clear the air.
We also found that one particularly aggressive 'predatory' ant species tended to attack bugs carrying eggs, and gangs of these ants could succeed in killing them.
But those 'predatory' insects that locate prey through chemical sensing are not deterred.
If 'predatory' birds expect their prey to fall to the ground, Schmitz and Auliya's argument runs, they would be unlikely to notice a lizard still hanging from a branch.
Experts believe the extinct birds were meat-eaters because their beaks resemble those of 'predatory' eagles and scavenging vultures.
I mean, there have been cases of 'predatory' females seeking out young, teenage boys to have their wicked way with…
Such substances generally are highest in older, larger, and more 'predatory' fish or marine mammals.
Visibility and distribution of prey and 'predatory' sharks may correlate with water depth.
When large fish were excluded, 'predatory' insects and fish fry were freed from predation and more effectively controlled chironomid populations feeding on algae.
The bill also significantly improves protection for society's most vulnerable groups against exploitation by 'predatory' sexual offenders.
Mercury then enters the aquatic food chain, becoming more concentrated in higher-level 'predatory' fish.
Effective defense against newly encountered 'predatory' species is clearly one factor that could facilitate establishment of an introduced species.
Belinda Hoare, of Home and Away, portrays the extraordinary lead character, Miss Julie a fallen, desperate, sexually 'predatory' heiress seeking to be saved by love.
The 'predatory' species therefore also have short life spans.
Mammals and birds in particular developed new forms, whether as fast-running herbivores, large 'predatory' mammals and birds, or small quick birds and rodents.
It was probably a bipedal animal, probably 'predatory' , and probably the size of a large dog.
But 'predatory' birds attack from above, relying on their excellent vision to sight prey during daylight.
Several strains and species of 'predatory' nematodes are produced and sold.
Describing himself as one of the ‘new princes of corporate feudalism,’ the CEO is corrupt, 'predatory' and greedy.
Like Pabst's Lulu (but unlike American cinema's 'predatory' noir females), Stasha ignores money and seeks no economic goal.
The fundamental political problem of economic development is therefore that of devising the appropriate means for channeling government action into support of markets, rather than 'predatoriness' .
Trepidation crept up my spine as she swam towards me, eyeing me 'predatorily' .
‘Too bad they're idiots,’ Maddie said, looking at them 'predatorily' .
Like great wasps or huge cruel dragonflies, two helicopters hovered, ominously… 'predatorily' … over the blocks ahead of us.
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