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    Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common feeding...
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    Look up granivore in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Seed predation, often referred to as granivory, is a type of plant-animal interaction in which granivores...
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    Intraguild predation, or IGP, is the killing and sometimes eating of a potential competitor of a different species. This interaction represents a combination...
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    The predation problem or predation argument refers to the consideration of the harms experienced by animals due to predation as a moral problem, that humans...
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    predation is a form of predation in which predators actively give chase to their prey, either solitarily or as a group. It is an alternate predation strategy...
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    Egg predation or ovivory is a feeding strategy in many groups of animals (ovivores) in which they consume eggs. Since a fertilized egg represents a complete...
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    Along with parasites and disease, predation is a threat to sheep health and consequently to the profitability of sheep raising. Sheep have very little...
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  • Child sexual abuse (CSA), also called child molestation, is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation...
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  • A sexual predator is a person seen as obtaining or trying to obtain sexual contact with another person in a metaphorically "predatory" or abusive manner...
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    Cat predation on wildlife is the result of the natural instincts and behavior of both feral and owned house cats to hunt small prey, including wildlife...
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    Bacteria (redirect from Bacterial predation)
    PMID 12448714. S2CID 20018104. Bauer A, Forchhammer K (May 2021). "Bacterial Predation on Cyanobacteria". Microbial Physiology. 31 (2): 99–108. doi:10.1159/000516427...
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    populations of herbivores exceed historic levels due to reduced hunting or predation pressure. For example, carnivores declined in North America throughout...
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    "Origins and early evolution of predation" (PDF). In Kowalewski, M.; Kelley, P. H. (eds.). The fossil record of predation. The Paleontological Society Papers...
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    Egg (section Predation)
    An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until...
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    Lithotroph Plastivore Methods Predation Ambush predator Apex predator Egg predator Intraguild predator Pursuit predator Aquatic predation Lunge feeder Pivot feeder...
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    emissions, and the trees became darkened. This led to an increase in bird predation for light-coloured moths, as they no longer blended in as well in their...
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  • Atlantic showed that cats wearing anti-predation collars killed 19 times fewer birds than cats without anti-predation collars. Dog collar Collar (animal)...
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    Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (/ˈbɛriə/ BERR-ee-ə; Russian: Лаврентий Павлович Берия, IPA: [lɐˈvrʲenʲtʲɪj ˈpavləvʲɪdʑ ˈbʲerʲɪjə]; Georgian: ლავრენტი ბერია...
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    can perceive the ultrasonic emissions of bats, which helps them avoid predation. A few insects, such as Mycetophilidae (Diptera) and the beetle families...
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    a significantly slower pace than ruminants, who face greater natural predation hazards. Many desert animals do not drink even if water becomes available...
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    excretes the seeds some distance away, allowing greater dispersal. Even seed predation can be mutually beneficial, as some seeds can survive the digestion process...
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    more vulnerable prey. However, the time necessitated by such selective predation could result in a failure to meet the predator's self-set nutritional...
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    sticky tongues of chameleons to the expanding mouths of frogfishes. Ambush predation is widely distributed in the animal kingdom, spanning some members of...
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    immature stages move slowly or are immobile, hence all stages are exposed to predation. Adult butterflies and moths are preyed upon by birds, bats, lizards,...
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    The black mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis) is a species of highly venomous snake belonging to the family Elapidae. It is native to parts of sub-Saharan Africa...
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    welteri) does this, the mother brooding the eggs and guarding them from predation as the embryos feed on the yolks of their eggs. When fully developed,...
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    spines, and by living in a group. Members of groups are at reduced risk of predation, despite the increased conspicuousness of a group, through improved vigilance...
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    wildlife Hare coursing Hunting International primate trade Ivory trade Predation problem Seal hunting Wild animal suffering Wildlife management Other Abandoned...
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  • espèces: À propos de la prédation et de l'opposition entre écologie et libération animale" [Against cash apartheid: About predation and the opposition between...
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    20, 2012. Retrieved July 10, 2008. "Cougar Predation – Description". Procedures for Evaluating Predation on Livestock and Wildlife. Archived from the...
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