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Recent Examples of predator
But yet, this mega-bear was still the apex predator of its time, thriving across North America for millions of years.
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Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
On islands, where native species often evolved without major predators, cats can be devastating.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
Winters is leading the field work on the ecology side, which involves deploying a massive camera trap grid in areas where wolf packs reside in addition to collecting scat and investigating areas where the predators have spent a certain amount of time.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2024
This strategic approach allows easier access to critical organs, particularly the liver, which is rich in lipids and nutritionally important for the predators.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024
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Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
On islands, where native species often evolved without major predators, cats can be devastating.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
Winters is leading the field work on the ecology side, which involves deploying a massive camera trap grid in areas where wolf packs reside in addition to collecting scat and investigating areas where the predators have spent a certain amount of time.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2024
This strategic approach allows easier access to critical organs, particularly the liver, which is rich in lipids and nutritionally important for the predators.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024
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Bill Skarsgård’s Count Orlok is more a Romanian folk vampire — decayed but still quite libidinous — than suave, past aristocrats limned by Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee.Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024
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Skarsgard’s character was never named, but Shadows has a tradition of bringing back famous vampires from movies and TV shows.Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 2 Dec. 2024
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Angry shorebirds defending their nests have also attacked drones deployed by city officials to alert lifeguards to sharks and struggling swimmers.Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
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Greenland sharks are the longest-living fish Could a contemporary of William Shakespeare still be swimming in the sea?Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2024
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Those faint playoff hopes would undoubtedly die and the vultures surrounding this team, waiting for its ultimate demise, would create a deafening noise.Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 8 Dec. 2024
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Intelligencer The Cut Vulture The Strategist Curbed Grub Street vulture games Dec. 8, 2024 By Britina Cheng, Vulture’s Cinematrix producer A new Cinematrix drops every morning.Britina Cheng, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2024
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Farmers in many member states have been increasingly angered by attacks on livestock by packs of wolves that have thrived in woods and fields close to agricultural land.Raf Casert, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024
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The landscape is putting Democratic priority initiatives from prior years at risk, including a potential delay in the reintroduction of wolves to western Colorado to save at least $2 million in the next fiscal year.John Frank, Axios, 2 Dec. 2024
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“Predator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predator. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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