predator
Example Sentences
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Miller’s death marked the first known instance in California history of a fatal bear attack on a human and has sparked increasingly heated battles around predators in the state.
From Los Angeles Times
Some species were small, squid-eating hunters measuring less than 1 m long, while others were enormous apex predators exceeding 5 m in length.
From Science Daily
These are long, often perilous journeys, where the birds navigate through storms and evade predators, while looking for the ideal spot to spend the night.
From BBC
Yet most of that life is made up of very small organisms, raising a long-standing question about why large predators would linger there for so long.
From Science Daily
There are few places in the world better suited to deer than modern Britain with its mild climate, open countryside, no animal apex predators and few human hunters.
From BBC
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