Synonym: fair game, feed, predate, quarry, raven, target. Similar words: press, spread, prewar, prefer, preach, Supreme, pretty, prepare. Meaning: [preɪ] n. 1. a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence 2. animal hunted or caught for food. v. 1. profit from in an exploitatory manner 2. prey on or hunt for.
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151 A battle of wills, no less, between pursuer and prey.
152 Bone modifications All predators modify the bones of their prey to a certain extent.
153 While we are the prey of negative emotions we merely exist.
154 In lakes, crustaceans, molluscs, leeches and mayflies dwindle, although predators remain more numerous,(http://sentencedict.com/prey.html) feeding on alternative prey.
155 Carnivores can also adjust the size of the hunting party to the kind of prey being sought.
156 One other interesting example of feeding technology is the use of bait to catch prey.
157 Now direct experimental evidence has proved the assumption justified, at least when the prey are nauseous chicken eggs and the predators crows.
158 They improve the stock of their prey, such as deer, by killing the inferior or injured animals.
159 Its highly flexible neck enables it to keep watch over a wide area while it is both searching for and chasing prey.
160 Prey is immediately carried to the mouth and killed with a bite from the bird-like beak, tucked away among the tentacles.
161 They were significantly overrepresented in the underground economy, where they were prey to exploitation.
162 Indeed, even in the fast choppy water the practised eye can spot his prey a hundred yards away.
163 Also I didn't have much money, and barn owls are much cheaper than a lot of birds of prey.
164 With wild cats it ensures that the animals do not become totally dependent on one kind of prey.
165 Their long slender beak also assists in capturing their prey.
166 The other clawed into it, mercilessly pecking while its prey squawked with weakening jabs of its beak.
167 It is extraordinary that such a large animal can move through close cover without revealing itself to its prey.
168 The results of the analysis in Table 3.9 show that several species have consistent deficits of isolated teeth in their prey assemblages.
169 The king crabs have a nearly circular carapace, beneath which powerful legs helped the animal to swim and catch prey.
170 Would such a shy creature really prey on human offspring?
171 The truth is that real man-eaters, those tigers that deliberately and consistently hunt human prey, are extremely rare.
172 They hunt at night, and can not use light to help them find prey and avoid obstacles.
173 He slipped gently behind a low bush, waiting, like a hunter for his prey.
174 The benefit of this feeding lifestyle is that it avoids the dangers of active killing of prey.
175 Yet aposematic coloration has not always evolved among kin-grouped prey and we need to identify the variables that are of evolutionary importance.
176 The insects that bats prey upon have a comparable battery of sophisticated electronic and acoustic gear.
177 Gregarious; large flocks make remarkable roaring sound on surface of water when disturbed by birds of prey.
178 Later, in Victorian times, birds of prey were persecuted by game keepers, by taxidermists and by egg collectors.
179 He says that dinosaur specimens from late Cretaceous rocks reveal low predator/prey ratios of from 3 to 5 percent.
180 And evidence of the oxygen-starvation to which denizens of that lofty aerie are prey.