predator

Example Sentences

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Then, once hatched, fewer than 50% of eaglets survive their first year due to challenges from severe weather, food shortages, falls from the nest and predators, according to the American Eagle Foundation.

From Los Angeles Times

They suggest that brief, rapid bursts of hopping may have helped some giant kangaroo species avoid predators, including members of an extinct group of marsupial lions known as Thylacoleo.

From Science Daily

Mountain lions were fierce predators, sometimes even hunting horses as big as Dodger.

From Literature

He described them as a "highly intelligent" and "active predator" equipped with "specialised glands that produce venom to incapacitate its prey".

From BBC

Hawks were natural predators of lizards, but no one ate anyone anymore.

From Literature