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[pri-dey-shuhn]

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noun

depredation; plundering.

act of plundering or robbing.

predatory behavior.

a relation between animals in which one organism captures and feeds on others.

Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English < Latin praedātiōn- (stem of praedātiō) a taking of booty, plundering, equivalent to praedāt(us), past participle of praedārī to plunder, catch (see predator) + -iōn-

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Increased stress and predation of the young on breeding grounds could further jeopardize these populations.

In other words, predation is an unalterable fact of life.

Establishing that a firm is guilty of predation is difficult.

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Increased stress and predation of the young on breeding grounds could further jeopardize these populations.

In other words, predation is an unalterable fact of life.

Establishing that a firm is guilty of predation is difficult.

Loss of clownfish leaves anemones exposed and vulnerable to predation.

The difference in the seals' survival rates could be a result of an increase in shark predation within the reserve.

Disease and predation furthered their decline and by the mid-1980s, the species was thought to be extinct.

Contrary to conventional wisdom predation does influence primate evolution.

They suffer high predation pressure and high death rates.

When those thoughts are absent, societies are organized around mutual predation.

And predation management strategies are still being developed.

It could have been more of that predation or shared hangout that let the two louse lineages reunite.

On continents, prey species have survived predation for centuries.

If it emerges to forage, it faces some risk of predation.

Its main threats are habitat loss and predation by introduced sunfish and other species.

The researchers also found that large parrotfish escape predation by grouper, because they are too big for the predators to eat.

Combined with vanishing habitats and naturally slow reproduction, such predation threatens remaining populations.

Old males are solitary, more prone to predation and scavenging, hence the rarity of specimens.

One proposed compromise over wolves has been to pay ranchers for animals lost to predation.

Even if predation were aggressive, the fact remains that in virtually all animals that eat live food, males and females both hunt.

The nocturnal creatures rely on darkness to avoid predation.

Our dark side is driven by a evolution-based propensity toward predation and dominance.

But that perspective doesn't account for the near-inevitability of predation or disease or plain bad luck.

Development, disease and predation have taken a ruinous toll.

Many scarab beetles are metallic in color, which allows them to blend into wet forests and avoid predation by birds.

Strangely enough, there was no concrete evidence pointing to disease or predation or of mites that tend to attack bee hives.

Even if they spend years in the field, researchers rarely witness predation on primates.

Scientists do say that wolf predation has been significant enough to redistribute the elk.

As a result, females tend to be larger than the males, making them more susceptible to predation by humans.

Effects of the mother, object play, and adult experience on predation in cats.

And, until recent human-led extermination campaigns, wolves have faced little predation pressure.

The loss of tamarisk leaves has also fatally exposed flycatcher chicks to increased heat and predation.

Energy and predation costs of firefly courtship signals.

At nests closer to areas which are frequently poison baited, dingoes were rarer and predation by foxes has been more frequent.

Kids also get a gentle introduction to animal life survival strategies such as migration and predation.

The early singing may also put the males at greater risk of predation.

Part of my concern comes from this severe sense that if you can't control predation and disruption, the community can't survive.

At the same time, predation by bears exerts an important influence on the survival and evolution of the salmon populations.

My understanding is that human predation was not the cause of the demise of the the dodo.

It's now a victim of predation from invasive, and more aggressive, species.

Explanations range from vanishing habitats, fungal infections, cannibalism and predation to the far more ominous.

More predation led to fewer browsers, fewer browsers meant more of their favorite foods to eat.

Species die due to predation or loss of habitat all the time.

Climate warming and predation risk during herbivore ontogeny.

Perhaps the fantastic schooling movements of many species of fish offer a clue: line-dancing protects us against predation.

Donning your enemy's cloak: ground squirrels exploit rattlesnake scent to reduce predation risk.

Predators are necessary in the natural environment but human predation has to be balanced.

As a result risk of predation is diluted and predators may become confused.

And livestock losses due to predation by any animal are dwarfed by losses due to severe weather, disease, and birthing issues.

The mainland insects may be selected for high flying speed because of bird predation.

Tcarnifex doesn't show adaptations in the ischio-natal region indicative of gravitational predation.

Those children who survived disease fell to predation later in life.

To try is hubris, folly and justifies more predation.

It is also claimed that wolf predation has caused a decline in the elk.

Prey species are generally thought to be more cautious foragers when predation risk.

Rather than flooded tunnels, easier migration and predation fear may drive the worms.

It's possible a similar system of mate fidelity aided the group cohesion needed to minimize predation in early humans, he said.

Traces of predation on glyptodonts are rarely found.

Herds use cooperation to deal with predation by wolves or dogs.

Weakened trees become susceptible to insect predation or fungus invasions.

These rats will multiply as quickly as the available food supply if no predation is occurring.

For female baboons, a constant worry besides predation is infanticide.

Furness says deer predation doesn't represent a significant threat to the colony.

Predation often causes evolutionary arms-races between predators and prey.

To hunters, killing wolves is both an end in itself and a way of reducing their predation on elk and deer.

These snails escaped capture and predation more frequently than did their close relatives with larger apertures.

They're relatively safe from predation but must guard their eggs and chicks from birds of prey, such as skuas and seabirds.

It is not clear whether this damage was caused by predation or scavenging.

If they alert potential prey to their presence, the food sources swiftly slides into the sea and evades predation.

If the fox predation on birds is too heavy you might trap them or try to reduce access to denning sites".

Large animals do not withstand heavy predation that is why they evolve large size, to makeup for slow reproduction.

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predation (prɪˈdeɪʃən)

—n
	a relationship between two species of animal in a community, in which one (the predator) hunts, kills, and eats the other (the prey)

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predation

mid-15c., "act of plundering or pillaging," from L. praedationem (nom. praedatio) "a plundering, act of taking booty," from praedari "to rob, to plunder," from praeda "plunder, booty, prey" (see prey). Zoological sense recorded from 1932. Predatory is first recorded 1580s;

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of animals, 1660s. The verb predate "to seek prey" (1974) is a modern back formation.

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