| 单词 | predatory animal |
| 例句 | Even Shorty, whose apartment I now again shared, wasn’t prepared for how I lived and thought—like a predatory animal. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The only good I could see in killing one was getting rid of a vicious predatory animal. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Such sentimentalism may seem ridiculous considering what I had witnessed in the last days, but those were the deeds of others, of predatory animals. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z A forthcoming film, “Snow Leopard,” about the tense relationship between humans and predatory animals, is currently in postproduction. Pema Tseden, Pioneering Tibetan Filmmaker, Is Dead at 53 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z His job is to roam the tundra with a high-powered rifle, “a salaried killer for a petroleum company,” picking off the predatory animals that menace the other workers. Movie Review: Liam Neeson in Joe Carnahan?s Thriller ?The Grey? 2012-01-26T22:19:02Z Savage reportedly contacted animal control about the gator, but officials were unable to locate the predatory animal. Dog's tail bitten off after alligator attacks it during walk 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z Flory learns to live by day instead of by night, and to cajole potentially predatory animals into helping her. Imagination Stage’s ‘Night Fairy’ enchants at times, but it could use a bit more magic Keeping predatory animals as pets in Iraq – especially in Baghdad – has become popular among the wealthy. Delayed passengers growl after a bear escapes from the cargo hold of an Iraqi plane in Dubai 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z Some predatory animals including sharks can become aggressive as they get confused in hotter temperatures. Ocean heat record broken, with grim implications for the planet 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z To be even blunter, Trump looked like a predatory animal that had been caged. How Trump may be coping with being caught 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z And the more food there was, the more dominant they became in the ecosystem, a finding that also holds true for predatory animals. Predatory Bacteria Are Fierce, Ballistic and Full of Potential 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z Mr Singh proceeded to call penguin rescuers as he was concerned that the penguin was not getting into the water, thereby making it a potential target for other predatory animals roaming the beach. Rare Antarctic penguin accidentally travels 3,000km to New Zealand 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z As the first predatory animals evolved, ecosystems grew more complex and many of the major animal groups that still live today appeared for the first time: a geological turnover called the “Cambrian explosion.” ‘Spaceship-Shaped’ Fossil Reveals Hungry Predator of Ancient Oceans 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Dr. Makovicky said when he read the paper, he started searching for populations of large predatory animals today to compare with the estimate of 20,000 T. rexes. How Many Tyrannosaurus Rexes Ever Lived on Earth? Here’s a New Clue. 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z Our remote ancestors were terrified of thunder, darkness, predatory animals, snakes, ghosts, sicknesses, strangers and nearby hostile tribes, along with earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and the rest of the catalogue of routine but unpredictable natural disasters. Perspective | How to cope in an anxious age: Try Hitchcock, Munch and Poe 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Eroded environments in less developed nations tend to lose large predatory animals first. To Prevent the Next Pandemic, End Unequal Access to Natural Resources 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z The robotic arms seemed to prod and grab at the tissue like a pack of predatory animals, giving the disquieting impression that they were feasting on a carcass. Paging Dr. Robot 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Police no longer think a human was responsible, they said Friday, with a second feline necropsy showing “signs that a predatory animal attack caused the death, with postmortem scavenging of the body.” Everett police no longer believe cats were intentionally mutilated; animal predator suspected 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z The Jackson Hole News & Guide reports that Teton County Democratic Rep. Mike Yin tried to bring forward a bill to ban killing or injuring predatory animals using snowmobiles. Wyoming lawmakers reject bid to ban ‘coyote-whacking’ 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z His customers often ask for classic tattoo motifs – a rose, for example, or a predatory animal – but Maori-style tribal patterns are also popular. 'A silent act of resistance': the hidden tattoo studios of Tehran 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z In 2001, state lawmakers reclassified the pigs from livestock to predatory animals, allowing them to be hunted without regulation. Feral swine population plummets in Oregon 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z “I think the forest — any depiction of the forest — always elicits a sense of mystery, of a fairy tale, and a certain anxiety that some kind of predatory animal can suddenly jump out of there.” A Russian Master of the ‘Dark Side’ in Film 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Cats, indeed all predatory animals, have evolved to rest or sleep when not actively hunting or breeding. How Our Bones Might Help Keep Our Weight in Check 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z On Tuesday, Houston city officials instituted a curfew — not because of the dangers posed by live electric wires in dark standing water or the possibility of vermin, disease and predatory animals. Looting rumors and fear of crime often exaggerated after natural disasters 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Using DNA analysis, the researchers determined that two of those species were most closely related to the Nile crocodile, an aggressively predatory animal native to South Africa. Researchers find invasive, 'man-eating' crocodiles in Florida 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z That goes double for any kind of predatory animal. Manta Rays Get Crittercams for First Time Ever Many ranchers happily offered up their own property for the hunters to use, hoping their livestock would be more protected from predatory animals. Wolf Hunting Event Breeds Controversy in Idaho Mr. Maikhrovsky is advocating in the Russian Senate for a law that would prohibit photographing children with predatory animals. Moscow Journal : Russian Circuses Offer Tigers and Bears as Props 2013-07-10T22:01:52Z Fish and Wildlife Service, Wyoming permits restricted hunting in certain areas but classifies wolves in most of the state as predatory animals subject to unlicensed shooting and trapping. Five wolves killed in Wisconsin as controversial hunt begins 2012-10-18T00:49:01Z Up to this time he had, like a predatory animal, lived wholly on attack, and had given no thought to consistency, and little to his future. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z The Republican governor acted to calm public alarm over dangerous predatory animals roaming rural Ohio until they were shot dead by police. Ohio governor takes steps on exotic animals 2011-10-21T21:39:34Z But for the rest of the state, wolves would be classified as predatory animals, subjecting them to unlicensed, unregulated killing through methods such as shooting, trapping and pursuit on mechanized vehicles. U.S. seeks to lift Wyoming wolf protections 2011-10-05T00:30:56Z Like the eyes of a predatory animal, they shot back the light in reflected gleams of fleeting topaz. The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z Her face reminded him of that of a predatory animal or bird, with its fierce eyes, thin, hard lips and aquiline nose. Cupid in Africa 2011-09-28T02:00:21.467Z Obviously a war of extermination against certain predatory animals is justifiable, but there is nothing more brutal than the modern methods of trapping. The Discards 2011-08-27T02:00:23.603Z Still, Chapron would like to try the analysis out on other big predatory animals, including, perhaps, North American wolves and grizzlies. Hidden Poaching Takes a Toll on Scandinavian Wolves 2011-08-17T00:02:00Z Such birds meet their fate from the less noble Accipitres or predatory animals of many kinds. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z She would be walking around like some sort of predatory animal, ruining her shoes, with a big ugly strap running over the top of them to hold the device in place. Non-skid 2011-06-08T17:50:32.410Z They might have been the meanest predatory animals—so stealthy, so eager, so timorous, so crouching, and yet so agile were their motions. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z Globally, small-scale artisanal gold mining is responsible for about one-third of the mercury released into the environment, where it bioaccumulates, collecting in the tissues of fish and predatory animals. A New Threat to the Amazon: Gold 2011-04-20T16:45:12.307Z This is something almost unique, for of course predatory animals are of necessity much less numerous than the animals on which they prey. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open Losses are often experienced as the result of predatory animals. Ducks and Geese Yes, it is true that Man, the hunter, has been the most predatory animal on earth. The Brain His globular eyes and glossy curling moustache made him look like some furtive and predatory animal. Command To hunt predatory animals—bear and wolf and cat and mountain lion—you need no permit; but if you are an outsider, you need one to get trout and turkey and deer. Through Our Unknown Southwest The losses in swimming large rivers, from fire, the attacks of predatory animals, hunger, and fatigue, are so great that but few reach the sea, and the remnant always perish there. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 There was in this connection, also, the precaution taken to protect against predatory animals and wild men. History of Human Society Cattle in hundreds are destroyed by these great predatory animals; even full-grown horses are killed and dragged away by them! Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt Had they not come upon the spot, it would have perished either by the suicidal act of half-strangulation, from thirst, or by the teeth of some fierce predatory animal. The Giraffe Hunters We can help Nature by supplying them with food when it is scarce and by protecting them from a few predatory animals and birds. Conservation Reader A tuft of gray hair hanging to a splinter proved the invader to have been a predatory animal of some kind, probably a cat. Our Bird Comrades She studied the short list of suggestions, seeing names of angels, predatory animals, military qualities. The Alembic Plot A Terran Empire novel Of all the predatory animals the seals seem to have the largest share of intelligence and the greatest amount of sympathetic motives. Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization It was that singular trait in the character of predatory animals, as the cougar, when under circumstances of danger. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire There are a few predatory animals and birds that destroy vast numbers of useful ones. Conservation Reader Not infrequently laws were passed offering bounties or otherwise encouraging the killing of wolves, pumas, and other predatory animals, or of birds regarded as injurious to growing crops or to poultry raising. The Bird Study Book The third form is called Chauliodus, a predatory animal with large gape and formidable teeth. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told As the excavation of the valley proceeded, the level of the stream was lowered and its course diverted; the cave consequently became drier and was far more frequently inhabited by predatory animals. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" The human predatory animal has his share of reason, but he also is automatic to some degree, and he will hunt in spite of all perils and all punishments when he sights his prey. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary What a world it was, and how terrible that every other man seemed to be a predatory animal, ready to spring upon his neighbor and wrest anything he had away from him. The Bad Man If the waifs grow up to be predatory animals, we must maintain them first of all in reformatories, and afterwards, at intervals during their lives, in prisons. Side Lights Once—after I was a protoplasm and a micro-organism, and a mollusc, and other things, I probably was a predatory animal—nice and sleek with velvet feet and shining incandescent eyes—and very, very predatory.... The Firing Line You like to kill; and it's a trait common also to children and other predatory animals. The Younger Set Then comes the next line of predatory animals who suck the blood of the dupes. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour Ninth, a general protection against thieves and predatory animals by an organized war on all "varments." The Dollar Hen When I was a boy in my 'teens, I had a lasting series of object lessons on the cat as a predatory animal. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation Systematic efforts are made to rid the Forest, as far as possible, of predatory animals that kill the sheep, also of poisonous plants which render grazing dangerous. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter Man, by virtue of his organic nature, is a predatory animal. Crime: Its Cause and Treatment Those who know the byways of life know that there are two kinds of dark language used by our nomad classes and by our human predatory animals. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour Each year the hunters kill thousands of predatory animals, thus saving the farmers and cattle and sheep owners many thousands of dollars. The School Book of Forestry During the past year the destruction of noxious predatory animals in the national forest reserves has seriously occupied the attention of the United States Bureau of Forestry. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation The most dreaded of predatory animals in the Middle Ages were the wolves. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom Mainly on mountain lions, but firsthand observations on other predatory animals also. Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations Some men have become predatory animals, and as such seek out lairs as would the beasts of prey. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe In fact, we have hunted deer more for meat than for trophies, and quite a number of our kills have been in a way incidental to hunting mountain lions or other predatory animals. Hunting with the Bow and Arrow —To many persons it may seem strange that anyone should feel disposed to accord protection to such fierce predatory animals as grizzly bears, lions and tigers. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation Because that made them out as cruel, heartless people, not much different in their attitude toward their fellow men from predatory animals in their attitude toward fellow predatory animals. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Any predatory animal must face this formidable beak if seeking to force an entrance to the nest; and I know by experience that the toucan can use it with great quickness and effect. The Naturalist in Nicaragua They did not know that we were in the group of the world's most savage predatory animals, and we puzzled them. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations He seemed as large as a horse, and had that grand supple strength given to no other predatory animal Though we were used to bears, a strange misgiving came over me. Hunting with the Bow and Arrow The solitary and predatory animals were now almost entirely extinct; and even before the advent of man with his social brain, it had been the herbivorous and gregarious animals which had become most numerous. Love's Pilgrimage Bounties on wolves and other predatory animals in your state. Community Civics and Rural Life But we have learned that we can never dig a hole so deep that it would be safe against predatory animals. State of the Union Address The air, the earth and the waters swarmed with predatory animals, great and small, ever seeking for the herbivorous and traitorous species, and preferably those that were least able to fight or to flee. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations In truth he was now the predatory animal. The Barrier His lips drew back from his teeth in the snarl of a predatory animal that clings to its prey at the cost of life or death. The Bat Investigate and report on: Further facts regarding losses to farmers of the United States due to insect and bird enemies, predatory animals, animal and plant diseases. Community Civics and Rural Life Foxes do not usually go hunting before midnight, nor do other predatory animals. Hiram the Young Farmer The wonderful giant penguins found and photographed near the south pole by Sir Ernest Shackleton never had seen nor heard of men, never had been attacked by predatory animals or birds. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations He made a catlike spring at the foremost man, who happened to be Oleson, and got a merciless grip with his fingers on his throat, snarling like a predatory animal over its kill. The Flying U Ranch |
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