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

Scats from predatory mammals and reptiles and pellets from raptorial birds were examined.

From A Population Study of the Prairie Vole (Microtus ochrogaster) in Northeastern Kansas by Martin, Edwin P.

El�anus, the name of certain species of raptorial birds of the genus Elānus, belonging to the kites.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various