raptorial
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The team also examined owl and raptorial predators however while the effects were the same, they were not as evident.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2023
In either case, we clearly have underestimated the abilities of those big, beady, raptorial eyes.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 13, 2018
Equipped with grasping, raptorial appendages, these Ordovician hunters plucked up soft-bodied prey and fed it into their camera-shutter mouths.
From Science Magazine ● May 25, 2011
So far as I could see, there was no danger from raptorial foes at hand, but the little family seemed to be in training against the approach of a marauder.
From Our Bird Comrades by Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser
Presumably most of the crepuscular and early nocturnal raptorial birds and carnivorous mammals feed on these mice.
From Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys by Robert L. Packard
