predator

[ˈpredətər]

Definition:
1. Someone who attacks in search of booty.
2. Any animal that lives by preying on other animals.

Use 'predator' in a sentence:

1. Equation of predator functional response and estimation of the parameters in it.
2. Study on statistic model of functional response of predator to prey.
3. This unexpected display of color startles or confuses the predator and provides the would-be prey with an opportunity to escape.
4. As predicted, the birds incubated in the light looked for food mainly with their right eye, while using the other to check out the predator.
5. They do that to draw the predator away from their nest, away from their eggs or their young birds.
6. Their natural predators have been killed off.
7. The final part of this chapter was devoted to a brief summary of predator species.
8. Predator: Intoxication-Damage over time effect will now stack with other allies. Predator: Intoxication,
9. The seal's longer excursions underwater, during which it appears to be either exploring distant routes or evading a predator, do evoke the diving response seen in the laboratory.
10. When a predator always eats huge numbers of a single prey, the two species are strongly linked ； when a predator lives on various species, they are weakly linked ．
11. In this study, the researchers looked at the high-pitched barks a prairie dog makes when it spots predator.
12. In the 1960s, scientists proposed that predators at the top of a food web had a surprising amount of control over the size of populations of other species---including species they did not directly attack ．
13. The searching efficiency decreased with increasing of predator density.
14. Komodo dragon is the largest living lizard and a fearsome predator.
15. What would he have done if attacked by a predator or an invading Klingon?
16. Its skin resembles that of another impressive predator and acts as camouflage on rocky seafloors.
17. When experimental populations are set up under simple laboratory conditions, the predator often exterminates its prey and then becomes extinct itself, having nothing left to eat.
18. But an innate3 fear of their predators seems, according to this research, to give the reds an edge over their grey competitors.
19. When a predator approaches, they do their best to attract the attention of that predator.
20. At night, the pit organs allow snakes to "see" an image of their predator or prey-- as an infrared camera does-- giving them a unique extra sense.
21. For example, our prairie dog spots a predator, a big coyote approaching rapidly.
22. birds and their earthbound predators.
23. These unassignable animals include a large swimming predator called Anomalocaris and a soft-bodied animal called Wiwaxia, which ate detritus or algae.
24. The effect of diffusion on predator-prey system in patches.
25. This idea is based on the principle that lions and other predators are far less likely to attack when they feel they are being watched.
26. Analysis of a Holling Type ⅲ Predator System with Impulsive Effect.
27. Because if the predator doesn't know you are there, it is not going to try to eat you.
28. He found that strongty-lateralised individuals were able to feed twice as fast as wealdy-lateralised ones when there was a threat of a predator looming above them.
29. A titanic snake has been identified as the top predator to walk, or at least slither, the land when the dinosaurs disappeared.
30. Mathematical models have also revealed that food webs may be unstable, where small changes of top predators can lead to big effects throughout entire ecosystems ．
31. If abandoned recklessly, they ’ re basically defenseless against natural elements and predators like cats, snakes, and monkeys.
32. A predator is an animal that hunts and eats other animals.
33. It is thought that they are capitalising on their predators fleeing to quieter areas.
34. Therefore, from the stand point of diversity, it is usually a mistake to eliminate a major predator from a community.
35. The reptile's prickly skin repels nearly all of its predators.
36. In this situation, the predator and prey population may continue in this cyclical pattern for some time.
37. If a predator can eat several species, it can survive the extinction of one of them ．
38. The company is worried about takeovers by various predators.
39. This paper investigates the predator prey system with functional reaction function x.
40. In the ocean, we fished for top predators such as cod on an industrial scale, while on land, we killed off large predators such as wolves ．
41. Now if you are a bird and there is a predator around.
42. The baby birds are kept safe form predators by a corrosive ditch.
43. It serves to distract a predator while the octopus makes its escape.
44. Wild pigs attracted golden eagles from the mainland, and those flying predators crashed the fox population.
45. The other group maintains that recent human activities ranging from physical coral destruction through pollution to predator removal have triggered these events.
46. A synchronised spectacle of breathtaking beauty. The starlings migrate in winter, south to Africa, nesting at night in central Rome for warmth, flying in formation to avoid predators.
47. To deal with the rabbit problem, settlers introduced stoats — a member of the weasel clan and a terrific predator.
48. Different populations living together and interacting. Populations can interact as competitors, predator and prey, or symbiotically.
49. She also knew from previous work conducted on birds and dolphins that these animals put half of their brains to sleep at a time so that they can rest while remaining alert enough to avoid predators.
50. But, as the human study suggest, another reason for dolphins keeping their eyes open during sleep is that they can look out for predators while asleep.
51. As one of the most habitats predators, killer whales may not fit the speculate of a cultured creature.
52. The bird is caught on the horns of a dilemma. Should it attack the predator, even though it then risks its own life? Or should it get out while the going is good?
53. For instance, islands often have not been colonized by large predators or are too small to hold feasible predator populations.
54. When a predator always eats huge numbers of a single prey, the two species are strongly linked.
55. The elements of intelligence and consciousness come together marvelously to produce different styles in predator and prey.
56. Parasitism is a kind of predator-prey relationship in which one organism, the parasite, derives its food at the expense of its symbiotic associate, the host.
57. Low prey population levels then provide inadequate food for the predators, causing the predator population to decrease.
58. The crown of thorns starfish is a coral reef predator that preys on coral polyps.
59. Now let's focus on a specific example of a natural predator that can cause a lot of damage to coral reefs—the Crown of Thorns, or CoT starfish.