In Madagascar one character, a lion, must rediscover his predatory instincts to stay alive. |
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But there is another group that adds fuel to the fire, and that is predatory young men. |
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He was a bit special then, a little cub with the predatory instincts of a full-grown hunting lion. |
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Centipedes are predatory, feeding on soil invertebrates such as earthworms and terrestrial insects. |
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Previous studies indicate that expanded brain volume in predatory mammals leaves less room for jaw muscles. |
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But predatory birds attack from above, relying on their excellent vision to sight prey during daylight. |
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Society increasingly perceives individuals to be passive victims of abusive and predatory corporations. |
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He had been as predatory as the other young men he ran with, as eager to seduce and devirginize as they. |
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A number of predatory fish, including the introduced tilapia species, wiped out most of the river's water beetles and bugs. |
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A predatory fish may eat it, or a strong current may dash it against a rock. |
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It's a formula centred around an almost predatory, sexually-confident brand of glamour. |
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The whelk-enclosure experiment demonstrated that the predatory whelk affected not only survivorship but also growth rate of the clam. |
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His tail is lashing wildly, as he eyes me coldly with a predatory stare, and snarls loudly. |
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For sheer size and predatory power, the killer whale is probably the closest thing to a living Tyrannosaurus rex on Earth today. |
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Unfortunately, predatory adults are already using the recent disaster to exploit these imperiled children. |
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We saw predatory birds hunting, which is not uncommon as Transylvania also hosts wild boars and wolves. |
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He will reawaken the dryads, who will become predatory while their wardens sleep. |
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Several groups developed active predatory larvae, still showing the spoon-shaped labium. |
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Some specialist sawfly adults sequester diterpenoids for protection against predatory birds and lizards. |
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Instead of finding something for her to eat, she found a nest of large insects of the predatory variety. |
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Effective defense against newly encountered predatory species is clearly one factor that could facilitate establishment of an introduced species. |
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The lowland rainforests of the Indonesian island of Java are perfect places for an arboreal, leaf-green snake to ply its predatory trade. |
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Not all appendages in rotifers function by directly interfering with predatory attack. |
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His cats are either rotundly ruminative, as in the picture of the wash-day, or predatory. |
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A dinosaur-era Davy Jones's locker of large, predatory sea reptiles has been discovered by fossil hunters on an Arctic island. |
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Thus, predatory tactics are employed more frequently and across the board by large and small firms alike. |
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His company was in a vulnerable position because it had been subject to predatory pricing over several months. |
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All are predatory, but the type of prey ranges from spiders to various dictyopterans or orthopteroids to caterpillars. |
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A newcomer could easily get lost in its tunnels, and the unwary is easy prey to predatory wasps or mantises. |
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Visibility and distribution of prey and predatory sharks may correlate with water depth. |
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The riskiest fish are large and predatory such as tuna, marlin and swordfish. |
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Experts believe the extinct birds were meat-eaters because their beaks resemble those of predatory eagles and scavenging vultures. |
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Flooded banks with green vegetation are prime areas to attract forage fish and predatory bass. |
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The recommendations do not extend to predatory aggression or what has been described as planned and self-controlled aggressive behavior. |
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This suggests that the number of predatory gastropods may not be driving the decrease in epifaunal richness in these samples. |
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Our results indicate that mesopelagic fish pose a stronger predatory threat than invertebrates to overwintering Calanus. |
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Some of the predatory fish of the ecozone are brook trout and Atlantic tomcod. |
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A good actor with the right material, he is simply miscast and unconvincing as a predatory seducer. |
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The bluefin trevally is a predatory animal that feeds on other fish or crustaceans. |
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The lid, sides, and floor of each container were examined for pear psylla, predatory insects, and spiders. |
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The most important of these include a predatory spider mite, the mite destroyer beetle, the six-spotted thrips and the minute pirate bug. |
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In general, healed injuries are considered to have resulted from trauma during molting or wounds by predatory attack. |
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Shallow water may allow mothers and calves to detect and avoid predatory sharks. |
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Burt is of average height and unassertive demeanour, a strange mixture of the predatory and the conservative. |
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Finally, Edie is the predatory singleton who mops up any unattached man who strays into Wisteria Lane. |
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Mercury then enters the aquatic food chain, becoming more concentrated in higher-level predatory fish. |
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Giraffe and Zebra are like two giddy Essex girls on a disco night-out pursued by predatory wide-boys Jaguar and Leopard. |
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He also attacked them for the exercise of predatory power over their smaller competitors. |
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The woman, Maria Kowroski, is a predatory siren whose fierce, angular movements are accompanied by the creaks and grinds of unoiled door hinges. |
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The financial deregulation he champions has led directly to the predatory, usurious lending practices that afflict the working poor. |
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His selection amounts to a declaration that the US government will brook no international opposition to its predatory designs. |
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Driven by an insatiable and compassionless greed, the predatory capitalist system won out. |
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In tropical vegetated seabird colonies such as Aride, predatory ants may feed on tick eggs and larvae thereby reducing tick levels. |
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Scientists still aren't clear, for example, whether the birds hunted in packs like velociraptors or individually like large predatory cats. |
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Large, predatory mammals form a guild in which competition is expected to be relatively intense. |
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It was probably a bipedal animal, probably predatory, and probably the size of a large dog. |
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Adam and his team of falconers use predatory birds like gyrfalcons, eagles, and peregrine falcons to clear the air. |
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Such substances generally are highest in older, larger, and more predatory fish or marine mammals. |
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Of particular concern is the grey nurse shark, a smaller, less predatory shark living off the coast of New South Wales and Queensland. |
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And, several species of spiders, damsel bugs and predatory stink bugs kill young larvae. |
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Most varieties are stoutly constructed, suggesting a defensive mechanism against predatory fish. |
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But those predatory insects that locate prey through chemical sensing are not deterred. |
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At high tide, many mudskipper species take cover in their submerged burrows to avoid being attacked by predatory fish that cruise the shallows. |
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The former lets parents block Web sites with inappropriate subject matter, as well as chats using predatory language. |
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I will try a predatory mite next year on the tree and maybe the sulphur candle for the shed. |
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Still others have homologized the flight stroke with a predatory strike used for prey capture or an aquatic swimming motion. |
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Host plants of two other chrysomelid beetles have similarly been found to benefit from the presence of predatory insects. |
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While trace amounts of mercury are present in nearly all types of fish, it builds up most in large predatory fish such as swordfish and sharks. |
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Pricing below average or marginal cost might occur as part of a predatory strategy to achieve or maintain market dominance. |
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Although she never had had any claim to him, predatory feelings were deeply embedded within her heart. |
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There is a predatory and illegal war of colonialist plunder being waged by this administration. |
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Although it is difficult to unequivocally equate regeneration with predatory activity, there is compelling evidence for just such a conclusion. |
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Foxes are not the predatory vermin some would like us to believe they are at all. |
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The silver bodies of predatory fish like congers make them virtually invisible head-on. |
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Arsenal have strengthened all over, perhaps solving their lack of a natural goal-poacher in the predatory Francis Jeffers. |
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The majority of trials were conducted with purple shore crabs, the most abundant predatory species co-occurring with porcelain crabs. |
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Riding a flood tide at night on this last journey, enough of them make it past the predatory fish to start the cycle anew. |
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The predatory habits of these critters helps to control insect populations in many parts of the world. |
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One genus is predatory, trapping small invertebrates under the fringe of the mantle, and then eating the captured prey. |
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The cuckoo wasp is predatory of sand wasps and lays its larvae in the nests of hosts after killing the host larvae. |
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Several strains and species of predatory nematodes are produced and sold. |
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Mammals and birds in particular developed new forms, whether as fast-running herbivores, large predatory mammals and birds, or small quick birds and rodents. |
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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. |
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When large fish were excluded, predatory insects and fish fry were freed from predation and more effectively controlled chironomid populations feeding on algae. |
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These range from those high-pressure watering wands designed for insect control to natural predators like lacewings and predatory mites to botanical and chemical pesticides. |
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All squids are highly predatory, they are big feeders on crustacean, fish. |
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Accusations have flown that Corbett played politics with the case of the predatory animal. |
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If a business offers free products in an effort to significantly reduce or eliminate competition, it will likely be found guilty of predatory pricing. |
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Jinx realized with a shock that he was still in a predatory, feline crouch, lashing his tail agitatedly, the claws on his feet digging into the dirt. |
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The peninsula, in effect a half-island appended to Eurasia, is burdened with geographic features that tend to encourage predatory behavior on the part of the great powers. |
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For a monarch caterpillar, ingesting milkweed poisons is not a surefire defense against a predatory stinkbug, which harpoons its victims before sucking up the body fluids. |
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Examples of abuse of a dominant position include overcharging, discrimination against suppliers, unjustifiable refusals to supply and predatory pricing. |
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Smears of crimson gleamed like the eyes of predatory animals lurking in the atramentous gloom as pair after pair of red crystals lit up within the ancient barracks. |
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The capital unscrupulously pumped from poor neighborhoods by way of predatory loans whizzes along a high-speed financial pipeline to Wall Street to be used for investment. |
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A hen party is in the house and predatory males start to gather. |
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The wings of parked aircraft provide a cooling patch of shade for some of the park's many predatory animals, and prides of Lions congregate there on a regular basis. |
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Some argue that predatory market forces make it impossible for benevolent governments to shield their populations from the beasts of prey that lurk beyond their borders. |
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I still believe that violence can be used defensively without mutating into a predatory urge to control and ultimately destroy everything in its path. |
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We suggest that these results may be analogous to the stress-induced changes in the mortality levels of snowshoe hares in the presence of predatory lynx. |
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But his violent past finally catches up with the hood turned husband and father in this rumination on America's predatory predilection to use force. |
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In his critique of what he terms predatory globalization, for example, Falk argues that neo-liberals have undermined the social contract between state and society. |
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A wide variety of business practices can run afoul of Section 2, including everything from forcing business partners to sign exclusive contracts to predatory pricing. |
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The predatory cladoceran Cercopagis pengoi has extended its range over the past decade from the Ponto-Caspian basin into the Baltic Sea and the Laurentian Great Lakes. |
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The predatory impacts of Cercopagis pengoi, a planktivorous cladoceran were assessed by examining patterns in the distribution and population dynamics of macrozooplankton. |
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Two predatory chancers wander the casual labour markets in large towns and persuade individuals to accompany them to find work in unregulated coal mines. |
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In the 25 days of observation, for example, 57 plants were found to harbor an average of 3.3 predatory mites, 16 plants contained nabids, and 30 plants contained mirids. |
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Pattinson seems to relish the opportunity to shed his image as a matinee idol and portray a predatory capitalist. |
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Maybe there is a Jungian association in the collective unconscious of film-makers between the image of predatory female insects and domineering mothers. |
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This, it should be said, bears an eerie similarity to the targeted, predatory lending of the last decade. |
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He said that predatory pricing is a short-term strategy that does not deliver sustainable price competition but on the contrary it is designed to reduce competition. |
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As a conclave of low-paid people with government guaranteed paychecks, military bases are natural targets for the predatory lending practices of payday loan companies. |
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This would seem to be the optimal size of giant predatory marine animals. |
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The villain of the piece is their predatory little-league baseball coach. |
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The working theory is that tourists scare off the predatory skuas. |
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The perils of distinguishing true predatory behaviour from beneficial rivalrous behaviour mean that the threshold for regulatory intervention should be high. |
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In 3,000 words or so of journalistic pointillism, McGeough paints his picture of America's predatory cynicism with artful little dabs and daubs of well-placed fact. |
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At the other end of the spectrum, nurse sharks are popular with aquarists, though they are highly predatory, often eating other organisms in the same tank. |
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She smiled at him, a smile that was unfamiliar, unusual, almost predatory. |
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There are some predatory sleeper gobies that get much bigger. |
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Another reason frequently given for promoting cooperatives is that they would protect craftspeople from predatory middlemen and usurious moneylenders. |
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Slick eye make-up and a loose mane of hair complete the predatory look. |
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As he peers over his spectacles, Leveson is a big predatory cat that beguiles as he smiles. |
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Another key figure in unmasking the predatory groups of men in Keighley is the town's MP Ann Cryer who began examining the issue of abuse more than two years ago. |
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The point is to protect the consumer from predatory business practices. |
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It attempts to characterize the predatory behavior of three genera of large predaceous dinosaurs from the distribution of their shed teeth at Como Bluff, Wyoming. |
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Allegations that these two men are abusive and predatory have gone on for years now. |
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How Rousseff's fall from grace will play into Brazil's predatory political scene is now an open question. |
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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. |
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Alex caught the predatory gleam in Greg's eyes as he offered them a drink. |
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Nonetheless, Washington has chosen to allow Chinese predatory behavior to continue. |
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Multiple species windbreaks can be a habitat for owls, mopokes and other predatory birds which will eat the rats, mice and other vermin that cause havoc within an orchard. |
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Most predatory dinosaurs such as tyrannosaurs and velociraptors have usually been depicted in museums, films and books as covered in a thick hide of dull brown or green skin. |
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It is controlled by insecticides and also a predatory shield bug. |
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Interactions of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry 1Ac toxin in genetically engineered cotton with predatory heteropterans. |
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He was moving towards her with a purposefully predatory stride, stopping only when he was breath-catching inches away from her. |
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All centipedes and spiders are predatory and although they are often found on corpses their impact on the other fauna is not known. |
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The gempylids, or snake mackerels, are a small group of predatory oceanic or pelagic fish. |
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Some poems from this period warn of dangers of predatory sexuality such as The Sick Rose. |
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In 1997, Hopkins narrated the BBC natural documentary series, Killing for a Living, which showed predatory behaviour in nature. |
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Some evidence also suggests the presence of predatory trigonotarbid arachnoids and myriapods in Late Silurian facies. |
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Trace fossils and predatory borings in Cloudina shells provide further evidence of Ediacaran animals. |
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Bird of prey or predatory bird, also known as raptors, refers to several species of birds that hunt and feed on rodents and other small animals. |
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During the day, they remain buried in the sand to escape predatory birds and fish, with only their antennae protruding. |
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Once they enter the water, they become prey to predatory fish and cephalopods. |
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Species which utilize underground or rock dens tend to be more vulnerable to predatory attacks by brown bears. |
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Unlike with predatory attacks, the victims of rabid wolves are not eaten, and the attacks generally only occur on a single day. |
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Its predators include domestic cats, hawks, owls, and many other predatory birds and mammals. |
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The majority of lizard species are predatory and the most common prey items are small, terrestrial invertebrates, particularly insects. |
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Leptocephali, glass eels, elvers, and small yellow eels are likely to be eaten by various predatory fishes. |
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Overfishing cod removed a significant predatory pressure on other Atlantic fish and crustacean species. |
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In general, predatory and forage fish share the same morphological features. |
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In some ecosystems, however, chimpanzees are predatory, forming parties to hunt monkeys. |
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Cephalopods are primarily predatory, and the radula takes a secondary role to the jaws and tentacles in food acquisition. |
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The caterpillar wiggles these organs to frighten away flies and predatory wasps. |
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The extinct predatory fish Dunkleosteus had sharp edges of hard exposed bone along its jaws. |
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After their experiences with the predatory Roman governor and Lucius Apronius, the Frisii became disaffected towards Rome. |
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Around AD 400, Tiwanaku went from being a locally dominant force to a predatory state. |
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Whereas brown bears often maul a person and then leave, polar bear attacks are more likely to be predatory and are almost always fatal. |
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Most of the flat worms are predatory and some are relatively brightly marked. |
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The spiny water flea, a predatory, invasive crustacean less than a half-inch long, thrives in deep, cold and clean water. |
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There was a time when 50,000-pound Barosaurs and predatory Allosaurs walked the region we now call Utah. |
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The local Aboriginal people, the Mirarr, called for a cull of the predatory reptiles around Jabiru following the incident. |
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No longer are anticompetitive or predatory pricing practices the target of the antidumping law. |
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As predatory birds, raptors a a critically important part of avian ecosystems. |
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Representatives of this family are known as assassin bugs because of their predatory feeding habits. |
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Nutritional plasticity of the predatory ladybeetle Harmonia axyridis comparison between natural and substitution prey. |
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Influence of the predatory backswimmer Notonecta maculata, on invertebrate community structure. |
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Alcohol impairs judgement and predatory lechers see lone women as wilful bait. |
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This study investigated how methylmercury effects Daphnia pulex in the presence of predatory stress chemical. |
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That's because albacore is a larger, more predatory species than skipjack tuna, which is canned as light tuna. |
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This type of predatory pricing can be designed to control a catchment area and eventually, of course, normal prices will prevail. |
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Chilesaurus is the first herbivorous theropod, a lineage that includes mainly predatory dinosaurs, from the southern hemisphere. |
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Factors affecting zooplankton community of the Gulf of Finland, with respect to native and introduced predatory cladoceran interactions. |
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A spokesman for ANZ issued a statement, which said that the bank had not engaged in any unethical or predatory behaviour. |
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Hunter'' is a fascinating song, straddling the line between something romantic and something unsettlingly predatory. |
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The actual creature featured an avian feathered body and rigid tail common to predatory dinos. |
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She describes the anatomy, mating behavior, and predatory techniques of crocodiles and their close relatives, alligators and gharials. |
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Both predatory and parasitoid insects need plenty of nectar and pollen to keep their energy up. |
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I READ with interest your article on pay day lenders and concerns expressed by the city council about poor, if not predatory, lending practices. |
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To save the Eastern hemlock, researchers have tried insecticides and predatory beetles. |
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There was an urgent need for regulation to ensure fair trade, outlaw predatory pricing and stamp out 'hello money' and profiteering. |
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There was a significant degree of premedication which leads me to the conclusion that this was a predatory offence. |
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Pelican Lake contains northern pike and largemouth bass, top-level piscivores, while Marsh Lake contains no predatory fish species. |
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But it is abhorrent and appalling that they should be using their power in this way, and there can be no excuse for such intimidatory and predatory behaviour. |
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Preliminarily study on controlling huanglongbing by predatory mite. |
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But the predatory pricing of airlines will see hopes dashed for many who simply cannot afford to pay the rip-off inflated prices being offered by greedy airlines. |
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Aviation experts said such a move could threaten the future of Qantas by allowing a foreign-controlled Virgin Airlines to dominate the domestic market with predatory pricing. |
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Having no teeth, they are unable to seize prey, though larger individuals and more predatory species can swallow very large prey items, including whole salmon. |
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Sea terns often hunt in association with porpoises or predatory fish, such as bluefish, tuna or bonitos, since these large marine animals drive the prey to the surface. |
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United's defence went missing in the 47th minute when Kolarov and Negredo combined and the predatory Aguero was once more the beneficiary with a simple side-footed finish. |
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Another invader of the Anchorage area is the northern pike, a voracious species of predatory fish that can wipe out a trout population or a salmon run in short order. |
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Distribution patterns of predatory arthropods, ulidiid eggs, and larvae can be analyzed by Taylor's Power Law, Iwao's Patchiness Regression, and the Index of Dispersion. |
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Complicating everything is competition, between traders big and small, predatory pricers and loss leaders, retailers on top of their game and those who are on the slide. |
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In some of these regions, predatory polychaetes were completely absent. |
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One section deals exclusively with a variety of insect types such as social bees, seed-sucking and sap-sucking insects, defoliators, fruit flies, and predatory beetles. |
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The carabids and staphylinids are a major component of the predatory ground fauna, while the scarab beetles tend to feed on foliage, detritus, and dung. |
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Try it for channel cats, crappie, bass, predatory rainbows and browns. |
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Famous dinosaurs in that area included predatory tyrannosaurs, the duck-billed hadrosaurs, heavily armored ankylosaurs, and horned dinosaurs known as ceratopsians. |
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The derby helped remove 3,000 predatory rough fish from the lake during last year's competition, and is a nonprofit event to help sustain renewable sport fishing in the lake. |
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Strychnine and 4-aminopyridine used as avicides are not only highly toxic to target birds but also pose secondary hazards to predatory and scavenger animals. |
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For decades, the attention of courts and commentators has been focused on the price-cost test in predatory pricing doctrine, rather than the recoupment test. |
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The goanna is a predatory lizard native to the Australian mainland. |
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Pirate spiders use aggressive mimicry in their capture of spiders, by producing vibratory stimuli on webs, thereby inducing a predatory response of the resident. |
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These also attract predatory flies that attack various tomato pests. |
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Its external morphology is a sign of its aquatic and predatory lifestyle. |
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Larger plants also create a favourable environment for predatory fish such as pike, which eat planktivorous fish, continuing to control their numbers. |
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With the large predatory fish removed, their prey have had population explosions and have become the top predators, affecting the survival rates of cod eggs and fry. |
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The majority of victims of predatory wolf attacks are children under the age of 18 and, in the rare cases where adults are killed, the victims are almost always women. |
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The footdrumming may alert nearby offspring but most likely conveys that the rat is too alert for a successful attack, thus preventing the snake's predatory pursuit. |
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Similarly, predatory attacks on large prey sometimes occur at riverbeds, when it is more difficult for the prey specimen to run away due to muddy or slippery soil. |
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Predatory insects, such as dragonfly nymphs and diving beetles, may help mitigate bullfrog populations. |
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Predatory snails, including Oyster Drills, whelks, sponges, especially the Boring Sponges, and fish all find oysters a tasty treat. |
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Predatory dinosaurs of the Jurassic included fearsome carnosaurs such as Allosaurus, small, fast coelurosaurs, and ceratosaurs such as Dilophosaurus. |
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Predatory fish in the ecozone include the lake sturgeon, brook trout, lake trout, northern pike, muskellunge, largemouth bass, sauger, and walleye. |
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Predatory bats typically hunt at night, reducing competition with birds, and minimizing contact with certain predators. |
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Predatory percid freshwater fishes such as walleye are prized by anglers in most of the United States and Canada. |
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