predators

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There, they don’t have to worry about their natural predators, like jaguars and anacondas.

From Slate • May 27, 2026

"We think this colour pattern helps keep it safe. If the octopus grabs a prey item that emits light, that light may attract predators that might then eat the octopus," she explained.

From Barron's • May 25, 2026

The team believes giant prey animals may have triggered an "evolutionary arms race" in which predators evolved stronger jaws and skulls to overpower increasingly massive herbivores.

From Science Daily • May 20, 2026

I deserve justice, which is why I stand up and face unbearable public scrutiny in the name of a greater good — a world where predators are not in power.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

Frightful had arrived in the Galapagos Islands, six hundred miles out in the Pacific Ocean, where the birds and reptiles had lived for hundreds of thousands of years, perhaps millions, without predators.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George