raptorial
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The team also examined owl and raptorial predators however while the effects were the same, they were not as evident.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2023
In either case, we clearly have underestimated the abilities of those big, beady, raptorial eyes.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 13, 2018
Equipped with grasping, raptorial appendages, these Ordovician hunters plucked up soft-bodied prey and fed it into their camera-shutter mouths.
From Science Magazine ● May 25, 2011
Since most of the raptorial predators that would prey on pocket gophers do not have a wide hunting territory, it is likely that the gophers were taken within a short distance of the cave.
From Pleistocene Pocket Gophers From San Josecito Cave, Nuevo Leon, Mexico by Robert J. Russell
The last mentioned specimen, a skull only, was obtained from a pellet of an unidentified raptorial bird.
From Distribution of Some Nebraskan Mammals by J. Knox Jones
