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Sunflower sea stars used to prey on the urchins, keeping them in check.

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Indeed, the Jane Goodall Institute now runs a longstanding baboon research project based partly on the fact that baboons are important chimpanzee prey.

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She also found that chimps hunted prey, ate meat, and were capable of a range of emotions and behaviors similar to those of humans, including filial love, grief and violence bordering on warfare.

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Girl A told the jury she may have been preyed on by hundreds of men as her phone number was passed around, adding "there was that many it was hard to keep count".

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In Season 2, Banda primarily appears in the Jack of Hearts game in the prison where one person recognizes him as a serial killer who preyed on women in the real world.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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