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
Throughout its range the brush rabbit is closely associated with—in fact, lives in—the chaparral that is dense enough to afford protection from raptorial birds and the larger carnivorous mammals.
From A Synopsis of the North American Lagomorpha by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall
To every migratory species of raptorial bird, that captures living quarry, there is a non-migratory counterpart or near relative.
From A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Douglas Dewar
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