predator
Example Sentences
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“They have a rare species of sea urchin that you find nowhere else in the Archipelago. The spines are a foot long, and they turn red in the presence of predators.”
From Literature
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However, scientists still know very little about how these predators manage to catch prey in a marine environment.
From Science Daily
Maasai herders in Kenya and Tanzania are paid around $600 for each cow killed by predators, on the condition that no predators are killed in retaliation, according to conservationists.
With them go their predators, the jaguars, ocelots and—yes—anacondas.
While this is unexpected good news for these Arctic predators, the researchers think it is unlikely to last.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.