How to Use predation in a Sentence

predation

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• Female orcas and their children can share strong bonds, and have been known to cooperate in predation.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 27 Mar. 2018
• Still, the fish-eye function does convey a feeling of surveillance, and is consistent with the movie’s themes of predation and paranoia.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• And those constraints have forced Ryan to choose what really matters to him: the protection of the makers from the predations of the takers.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 11 Apr. 2018
• Their small population makes them vulnerable to habitat loss and predation, the agency said.
  — Fox News, 11 Apr. 2018
• The internet need not be characterized by predation and parasitism.
  — Brendan Eichand, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2018
• Take, for example, a recent hypothesis called the predation paradox.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 9 Mar. 2018
• In a variety of urban environments, the density of predator species (be they bird or four-legged beast) hasn’t resulted in higher rates of predation.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 9 Mar. 2018
• Small fish benefit from living in schools, and the more numerous the group, the statistically better a fish’s odds of escaping predation.
  — Natalie Angier, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2018
• But a quadruple whammy of overfishing, sea lamprey predation, alewife invasion and habitat degradation caused stocks of the lake's top native predator to plummet.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2018
• This can lead to death from shock or predation, or from boat strikes.
  — Maria Morava and Scottie Andrew, CNN, 18 Feb. 2021
• Most survive predation to mate and then drop dead to the forest floor.
  — Jillian Mock, Scientific American, 9 Apr. 2021
• Ranchers rage at them for their predation of lambs and calves.
  — Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2021
• The move was designed to reduce predation by gulls and other birds on the small fish.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2020
• Fawns are dropping around the country right now and many won’t make it through the spring and summer due to predation.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 23 May 2024
• According to Muller, the calf’s mother was tucked away in the weeds nearby when the predation event took place.
  — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 10 Apr. 2024
• Like the spiny cone, their chemistry is a defense against predation.
  — New York Times, 25 Aug. 2021
• Birds can be a real source of predation for mason bees.
  — oregonlive, 11 Apr. 2021
• The outdoor pens are covered by a net top to prevent predation.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 17 Apr. 2023
• At other white shark hot spots around the world there is always a kill zone — a place where more predation events occur.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 10 July 2019
• Where the movie does score, however, echoing the temper of our times, is in alerting us to the murmur of predation.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 11 May 2018
• But in sites with active cougar predation, the donkeys were only seen during the day.
  — Sam Zlotnik, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Aug. 2022
• Meanwhile, buzzards are circling blue skies over the cornfield, a telltale sign of predation in the shadows of the stalks.
  — Casey Ross Reprints, STAT, 20 Sep. 2021
• This would help determine which pod might have been involved in the predation.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2022
• Likely for the sake of avoiding predation, the helmets can take the form of thorns, leaves, feces or even other bugs, like ants or wasps.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 9 Dec. 2019
• In the wild, tapirs face predation from large cats, such as jaguars and pumas in the Americas and tigers in Asia, as well as crocodiles.
  — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 4 July 2024
• This study is the first to focus on the direct impacts of human predation on other species.
  — Gina Errico, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2023
• It is theorized that this is in order to blunt the impact of predation: in this case by squirrels.
  — Star Tribune, 22 Dec. 2020
• Shark predation of a seal off Race Point this afternoon.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2022
• Second, beetle predation on eggs hasn’t yet been observed in the wild.
  — Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 1 Mar. 2019
• Some other scientists remain skeptical that the data shows clear evidence of shark-on-shark predation.
  — Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024