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This is quite worrying, you know, if the town lags behind in its development it becomes easy prey for the enemy.

its body like modern raptors catching prey, with its long leg feathers sticking out to the side.

The main reason was that fishermen were still able to exploit their relatively new ability to find and catch their prey.

Now he goes by the name Angel, and he fights to protect the helpless from those who would prey upon them as he himself once did.

Birds of prey are the hunters of the sky, powerfully equipped carnivores whose roots reach back to the age of the dinosaurs.

Congratulations! The eaglet started trying to eat by himself, tearing and swallowing his prey like a real raptor.

One would have said that it was an appetite following its prey, and purposely without wearing the air of doing so.

She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a strong lion. He learned to tear the prey and he devoured men.

It was close enough to see their prey, but not close enough to be seen and scare off their victims.

If anything, they actually seem to benefit from the poisons, becoming less likely to fall prey to their greatest enemy, the least weasel.

When people throw to the prey with such a stone, the sound of a whistles was made by the air flowed through the cavities.

They are particularly effective at night, when their light-reflecting eyes allow them to see better than much of their prey.

I'll teach him a lesson about just what'll happen if he lays his hands on someone else's prey.

I am standing on the monitor below the lens occasionally look back and stare, and with a puzzled expression . . . it is as if I was prey.

When the Hawks live up to the age of 40, it's claws start aging, unable to effectively seize the prey.

Imagine watching the sun set over the horizon whilst you capture the moment of a pride of lions stalking their prey.

Their roar is like that of the lion, they roar like young lions; they growl as they seize their prey and carry it off with no one to rescue.

Perhaps the real reason why they did not plant their footprints on the dinosaur freeway is that they might have ended up as prey, as well.

A mighty beast rises out of the water, ready to pounce on some unsuspecting prey.

I got the video camera to take a picture of it only to capture it capturing its prey, a blue jay, where the hawk began to feast.

The tactical plan is incredibly bad; the battery is not deployed for anti-tank defense at all and is going to be an easy prey.

She bit her lips; she seemed to hesitate, as though a prey to some sort of inward conflict.

Historically, he said, the squid and tuna competed for the same prey.

Evolution did not narrowly require that insects fly or swim, only that they somehow move quick enough to escape predators or catch prey.

Tiny spiders dripped from the wand and scurried toward their prey, growing rapidly as they went until each was the size of a man's hand.

And Chaldea shall be a prey: all that prey upon her shall be satisfied, saith Jehovah.

And she didn't even give it a second thought. Straight into that pool, with or without a crocodile, after her prey.

Endurance, concentration and a sharp mind are the virtues of a real hunter, who keeps his eyes on the prey and kills it.

And once the croc is a up to see its prey materializes once more. Reaction time is also quick, to match its warm blooded prey.

The word "Nian" was originally the name of a monster that started to prey on people the night before the beginning of a new year.

A king was once hunting in a great forest, and he chased his prey so eagerly that none of his men could follow him.

Other times, factors ranging from climate change to the resurgence of a prey population translate into sharks showing up in greater numbers.

If the prey item is too big, the frog can simply disgorge its stomach and wait it out for the next meal.

As the mispronounced and barely intelligible words were dragged out of him, he became instant prey for his classmates.

The fox, with all his thousand tricks, had not been able to get out of sight, and fell a prey to the dogs.

She said the eagle had likely been plotting how to retrieve what remained of its prey.

It attacked its prey near the surface, when it came up for air.

down on its prey. Suddenly it was hit by an arrow. It fluttered slowly down to the earth, and blood was pouring from the wound.

I liked to think of myself as a grown man, but consternation was eating away at my bravado like a starved piranha devouring its prey.

4Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing? b.

Looking at it closely, I observed animals and beasts of prey and reptiles and birds of the air.

Meanwhile, the run-up in commodities prices has taken financial pressure off some of the larger prey they might target.

Their improved intelligence, so vital to their old hunting life, was put to a new use - that of controlling and domesticating their prey.

she thought, raising a timid hand as far as she could as a herd of her prey suddenly appeared.

First, a small scout darts in to take a bite and checks how the prey reacts. If it gets a violent reaction, they all back up.

It also eat the meat, due to the large size, strength foot, so the lion is usually predator-prey bigger color-sensitive herbivores.

In more calm breezes, though, spiders can drift just a few yards to invade new territory or surprise prey.

In the low-visibility water the fish could have mistaken the vessel's shadow for prey, or been disturbed by another shark close by, he said.

Wild pumas do not always consume all of their prey and must protect it from being stolen of scavenged.

Zeus himself fell prey to the dark evils, this is why he became so enraged and obsessed with your death. He was consumed by the evil, fear.

He would have had to be a bird of prey, a handsome hawk, to pry a bankbook from their fingers.

They attack it, like a vulture on prey. As soon as something look like it's about to go awry they are on top of it to squash it.

Wide-set eyes and nostrils provide keen peripheral senses, and tiny electroreceptors on its snout help it pinpoint prey.

Now a study of broken teeth reveals that artistic licence has, at least for predator and prey, been rather accurate.

And you see that some of the bioluminescence they use to avoid being eaten, some they use to attract prey.

Do not leave for tomorrow what you must do today for time shall creep upon you as a lion to its prey.

Master scavengers , hyenas are able to consume and digest parts of prey that would remain untouched by other animals.

Their eyes and nasal openings are on top of their heads, allowing them to lay in wait for prey while remaining nearly completely submerged.

As soon as the prey is aware of their presence and ready to engage in defense, a pursuit might no longer be worth it.

Investor said the project fell prey to a downturn in the Colorado economy when the oil and gas industry faltered.

One of the most downright dangerous and deadly Transformers of all arrives on Earth in a single-minded, stop-at-nothing pursuit of his prey!

When a shot laid Marius low, Jean Valjean leaped forward with the agility of a tiger, fell upon him as on his prey, and bore him off.

A promise given for hard places, and a promise of safety and life in the midst of tremendous pressure, a life "for a prey. "

"Instead of always being the prey, " said Romano Prodi, Italy's prime minister, "I would like, once in a while, also to be the predator. "

You outmaneuvered me. You deliberately let me win, counting on the fact That Cyndi Lauper would prey on my emotions.

Wolf hiding in a cave, and a prey, but for a long time past, also did not see the prey.

Puss in Boots was very proud of his prey, and hurried with it to the palace and asked to speak to the king.

The Eagle And the Arrow An eagle was flying in the sky. As soon as it saw a rabbit, it swooped down on its prey.

Around 700 people a year are killed by tigers, often by sick animals unable to hunt faster prey.

This hyena, rather than being the slinking scavenger of Africa's wilds , is quite capable of bringing down prey as large as a zebra.

long-legged aquatic insect having the front legs fitted for seizing and holding prey and the abdomen extended by a long breathing tube.

He remembered that a bird of prey came down to his crib, inserted its tail feathers in his mouth, and moved them about.

but no one knows of the mental malady which previously sapped her strength, and made her so easy a prey to the spoiler.

Before it had fallen prey to weeds and neglect, it must have been magnificent.

JV: Please describe a possible scenario in which this predatory dinosaur attacks, kills and consumes one of its prey species.

Since the prey is so much larger than the predator, it sometimes takes the shrimp two weeks to finish off a single (living) starfish.

Dogs can be very territorial and their prey instinct is triggered by fast movement, so runners can catch their attention.

She found herself the prey of any man who chose to attack her and had to defend herself against rape as well as calumny.

Their traps suck in prey in less than a millisecond, making this one of the speediest movements in the entire plant kingdom.

Underwater, mantas have been observed doing loop after loop in the same place, concentrating their prey into a tight area.

Because of its excellent sense of smell and hearing, combined with quick action, they are able to prey a variety of small animals.

As a shepherd, Amos knew that the roar of the lion came at the time of attack and before that time, the lion stalks his prey in silence.

Buses are the only public transport. Most taxis operate without licenses, making foreigners easy prey for overcharging.

Otherwise, Louisiana would be an easy prey for the British or even for the Americans.

That very night a sound was heard throughout the house - like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey.

Sharks are quite a bit more intelligent than most people give them credit for, and often avoid prey as unfamiliar as humans.

That term is too strong, he says, to describe the variety of mental mishaps to which people systematically fall prey.

Recently, the predator-prey models of population dynamics have received a great deal of attention of mathematicians and biologists.

Lying just below the surface of the water, it moves slowly towards its prey , leaving the surface of the water almost undisturbed.

That could prompt consolidation in the sector within the next six months, with smaller players falling prey to longer established companies.

He wrote, "It's against the interests of either predator or prey to eliminate the enemy. "

If the prey animal is large, the tiger bites its throat to kill it; smaller prey is usually killed when the tiger breaks its neck.

The hunting dog has evolved a keen sense of smell which allows it to detect the presence of its prey from a long distance.

Scorpions follow prey out of the sea. Slugs became snails. Fish tried amphibian life. Frogs adapted to deserts.

Yet today's predators are smaller than those of the past, and the reason seems to have something to do with the speed of their prey.

So BofA isn't going to charge their regular customers as they planned, they are going to prey on the poorest of the poor.

Sita is living proof that this endangered species can flourish if only given enough room and enough prey.

Be realistic: It's far too easy to fall prey to "not invented here syndrome" .

The Chinese characters for prey and the twelfth month were interchangeable then, and ever since "La" has been used to refer to both.

But some think it could be just a matter of time before the banks start hunting for larger prey outside their backyard.

Modern Schizodactylus use their feet like snowshoes, to help them remain stable as they travel over sandy terrain in search of prey.

The peasant thought for a while and believed that it must have caught some prey.

I have had enough of a predatory state that would prey on the weak and the helpless, that would pervert the spirit of the law.

The eye of a jumping spider. The spider's eight eyes facilitate exceptional spatial and focusing abilities as it hunts its prey.

If you yearn for easy answers and quick solutions, you'll fall prey to people who offer nothing but promises.

Adults eschew such prey and typically feed on nectar or pollen, though some adults do not eat at all.

As it swims with its huge 4-foot-wide mouth open, prey like these dog snapper eggs gets trapped in a sieve or rakers. . .

what a thing it is to be a ghost, cowering and shivering in an altered world, a prey to apprehension and despair!

With these, hunters did not have to kill their prey on the spot, but could wait for the beasts to bleed to death.

The eagle poised in mid-air ready to swoop on its prey.

The mantis focused too much on its prey and neglected a bird behind staring covetously at it.

A non-existent state may allow pirates to flourish, but without the proximity of a shipping route they have no targets to prey on.

A large African bird of prey ( Sagittarius serpentarius) with long legs and a crest of quills at the back of the head.

And you could have tried to live within your means or, better yet, below them, instead of falling prey to financial fantasies.

As a result of missing out on opportunities to learn, Yi youth often fall prey to temptations that they encounter when away from home.

As long as these systems are in good working order, a prey animal is usually safe from wolf attack.

The same factor may have determined whether Deinosuchus individuals feasted largely on turtles or dinosaurs or other prey, Drumheller said.

They also captured vinegar flies and aphids -- usual spider prey -- and leaves to simulate debris falling into a spider web.

"The cheetah of his time, Banjo was light and agile, " Hucknall told the Sydney Morning Herald. "He could run down most prey with ease. "

Although visual cues will trigger the hunt, their sense of smell and hearing will assist in alerting them to the whereabouts of their prey.

He saw that they sought to prey upon his riches and his youth.

3A changeable lizard looks of its prey as it clings on a tree branch at Dimapur, in the north-eastern state of Nagaland.

Chirps and chatters can sometimes be heard when a cat looks at potential prey without being able to reach it.

People usually think that predators don't have to make an effort to kill the prey animals, for they have no means of protecting themselves.

People usually believe that predators have an easy time of it, killing defenseless prey.

Blues, craven, personation skilled; prey eyes and sharp teeth.

Titanoboa could've swallowed such toothy prey as though it were an appetizer.

To call them predators and us prey would be inaccurate.

He cannot withstand her glance. Again, he feels her pain in his own heart. Again, he falls prey to compassion and sinks deep into her soul.

A three-species ratio-dependent predator-prey model with time delays is investigated, conditions are given for persistence of the system.

They are capable of spitting water at insects that are close to the water, making the prey fall into the water where it is eaten.

Also likely to be affected are dolphins and species of fish that use sound to locate prey, avoid predators, and defend their territories.

The rest of the country is home to a radical Islamist insurgency, as well as to pirate fleets that prey on international shipping.

Weight-bearing exercise helps keep bones strong and less likely to fall prey to the body's own mechanisms in later age.

He , with his simplicity and inexperience, was an easy prey for ambitious females .

Killer whales, who live at the top of the ocean food chain, used to prey on sperm and baleen whales.

A grime-covered hunter is attacking its prey. "This one, you can just lean back in your chair with a beer to watch. "

We are just like a bird which forgets its own danger of being a prey of another in pursuit of a mantis.

They also use more sophisticated equipment, such a GPS tracking devices and radar, to stalk their prey.

It disappeared deep into the forest, only to return at night and prey upon the monks of the mission who had been responsible for its death.

Moreover, prey size and diet volume increased with the body size of both adult and juvenile bullfrogs .

For Apple critics (and what critics attack their prey more lustily than Apple's? ), that's the point.

Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey , and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places .

Verily, unto such a spirit it is preying, and the work of a beast of prey.

Mora 's desperate digging finally draws the attention of her hungry cubs. But their prey has long since given them the slip.

Almost anything that moves and will go into that mouth, even up to half of their own body size, is potential prey.

There was a mantis behind the cicada. Raising high its foreleg, it tried to prey the cicada under the cover of leaves.

The problem was that rocks weren't good weapons, even against slow-moving prey.

There had been fighting among the beasts of prey. They could not agree whether one animal was entitled to more food than another.

A delayed predator-prey system with periodic coefficients and with ratio-dependence in patchy environments is considered.

A millionaire hunting in Africa, after three days and nights of the company, a wolf became his prey.

where they continued to prey upon the young.

And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts.

Software Description: About The Great Feline Hunter, Picture of a farm cat considering its prey - a grasshopper.

They fly just above the surface of the water, sweeping the liquid with their feet and catching prey with their curved claws.

Wolves are intelligent and social. Their primary prey are deer, moose, and caribou, though they feed on many smaller animals As well.

Nothing happened between us. She's like a predator and I'm her prey. It's a conquest, not love. No way!

Prey is located by following a fresh scent trail on the ground or in the air, or simply by a chance encounter.

They are so confident of their ability to pinpoint their prey, using nothing but sound and it never hurts to practise.

They use their long whiskers and excellent sense of smell and sight to avoid predators and locate prey and carrion.

Like their wild relatives, domestic cats are natural hunters able to stalk prey and pounce with sharp claws and teeth.

A prey-predator system model with sexual favoritism is considered, and a sufficient condition of uniform persistence is given out.

The massive molars and powerful jaws of a wolf are used to crush the bones of its prey.

A jellyfish's tentacles, which can exceed 30 meters in length, drag through the sea and capture any prey that may be in their path.

As Mike Green explained, this is a temptation to which previous Administrations, including the Bush administration, fell prey.

The warts of a frogfish blend in with the bumpy texture of a sea sponge as it awaits unsuspecting prey in the Lembeh Strait, Indonesia.

The added springing action simulates having to tug at their prey, haul it away, or keep hold of it while it struggles to get away.

Leviathan among sharks, a whale shark (Rhincodon typus) gains on its small prey in the Indian Ocean off the coast of western Australia.

CALIFORNIA, though regarded by some as one of the more civilised parts of the world, is prey to wildfires.

The strongest climber among the big cats, a leopard can carry prey twice its weight up a tree.

Like other large carnivores, tigers need ample space and prey to thrive: Each animal might eat 50 deer a year.

But unlike insects that often fall prey to reptiles, scientists have observed one particular species of bug eating snakes and a turtle.

Sick Genius: Ashkenazim are prey to a host of debilitating diseases that might, counter-intuitively, enhance their collective intelligence.

I move on like the Greyhound bus I go town to town and I prey on sluts.

But those seemingly superfluous decorations may be traps that use light to lure prey, a new study of Australian spiders finds.

When a man is a prey to his emotion, he is not his master---Benjamin de Spinoza---Dutch philosopher.

Dr Simpson's work suggests the predators were not above going after small prey, too, just as coyotes will dig for prairie dogs.

Jumping spiders have excellent eyesight to see their prey in distance.

Fastidiously, she drinks the liquid tissues of her prey. Then she moves on, to kill again.

The dragon snake was a patient predator, usually lying in wait under the water until its prey wandered too close to the water's edge.

By a woodland pond, a tiny Grass spider falls prey to a Jumping spider, a more powerful and agile predator.

Originating back when hunting was still a major sport, this phrase came from when animals were used to track, catch or retrieve prey.

The great gray owl, like all birds of prey, has senses finely adapted to its environment.

Different species of penguin favour different prey, and the depths to which they dive is related to the location of such prey.

They like to size you up before they make their real move, like jackals finding out if the prey is as weak and hamstrung as it looks.

Whistles are thought to be identification sounds, like names, while clicks are used to navigate and to find prey with echolocation.

They use calls that imitate prey to attract hungry wolves, including the bugling of elk and a sound resembling a rabbit in distress.

Using a home-made trap, a tiny species of ant is capable of ensnaring prey much larger than itself and tearing it to pieces.

You might as well expect the beasts of prey to refrain from eating men as expect the imperialists to give up aggression.

A lightning-fast predator, the mantis shrimp uses its powerful limbs to smash or spear its prey with a force equivalent to a . 22 bullet.

A rough-skinned newt, one of the garter's favorite bits of prey, can contain enough tetrodotoxin to kill seven humans.

A tarantula will sometimes kill a small animal like a snake, frog, or bird, but crickets, beetles, and other insects are more typical prey.

He prowls the fields and streets near his London home for his prey and the results are often surprising; occasionally shocking.

Although studies have been conducted in some areas to determine the actual number of prey killed each year, the results are estimates.

And for a tiger, it's like crawling on your belly to stalk helpless prey.

This instinctive behaviour is easy to see - birds sing, frogs croak, male dogs cock their leg and cats stalk their prey.

Yet it is hard to see how the company can justify splashing out the equivalent of 400 times Skype's operating income last year for its prey.

Dr. Wayne believes that wolves began following hunter-gatherer bands to feed on the wounded prey, carcasses or other refuse.

To capture prey, the men have the right to participate in hunting barbecue will be distributed to tribal members and other visitors.

They dislodge their prey with their flippers , or by sucking in water and blasting it back out in targeted jets.

Predators, including humans, have eyes in front of their heads; in prey species the eyes are on the side of the head.

Like figures in a shadow theater, silhouettes of prey show through a Philippine pitcher plant.

This was inspired by a special I saw on TV about red-tailed hawks, plus my lifelong fascination with birds of prey.

In a prey's-eye view, an adult female snaps up a stickleback, a small spiny fish, from just beneath the water's surface.

Fast-start is an important maneuver capability for most fish to escape from predators and for some fish to capture prey.

While doing this, they are trying to "lose their scent" so that their prey cannot smell them.

Second, the whales chasing prey into the bank.

Informal businesses have lower wages, lower growth rates, poorer safety records, tend not to pay taxes and are prey to corruption.

The explosive attack occurs in 150th of a second. By violently swallowing, prey is sucked in along with a rush of water.

Since arriving in Africa, with new habitats and new prey, Ron and Julie are constantly redefining what tigers are thought capable of.

This is good news for spiders, since twisting can lead to swinging, not good when your trying to sneak up on prey or avoid predators.

The next test was whether the array could detect vortices left in the wake of escaping prey.

Its temporomandibular claws help push prey down its throat, and its stomach expands to hold large amounts of food.

A constellation of glowworms shimmers on rocks and ferns in Claustral Canyon as part of a strategy to attract prey.

Here are a number of animals that are true masters of disguise, blending into their environment to fool predators or prey.

Among animals, however, teeth and nails are often used to collect food or catch prey.

Monsters that creep up on their prey like ghosts , then explode into a fury of claws and fangs .

On the one hand, cats are predators, but on the other, they're small enough to be prey.

Young Xiong are growing up slowly, they start to practice to prey on, but in the bone is the child who a group wants to play all the time.

Raptors (birds of prey) are especially likely to be killed by power lines, particularly in the western U. S.

To clutch its prey, this dragonfish uses sharp rows of teeth that cover even parts of its tongue.

Knowing the routines and movements of your prey tips the balance of a hunt.

Men and boys are not the only people who have fallen prey to the drug; women and girls are merely harder to find.

"When a prey species makes an alarm call of any kind, the game is up, " Sagarin said.

Spiders cannot eat solid food. Instead, they pump digestive fluids into their prey, then suck up the dissolved body parts.

African army ants, whiich attack prey in a herd effort and chomp down on any potential threats.

They used disguises to get close to animals, lured prey with animal calls, and set fires to drive animals toward hunters or traps.

It forms an image of the thermal environment in the brain. And this image is accurate enough for a snake to bite its prey.

A giant bat swoops down on its prey and bites, attempting to kill it quickly.

On Sundays they pray for you and on Mondays they prey on you.

Within our own communities, those who seek to recruit and radicalize individuals will often try to prey upon isolation and alienation.

It falls prey to problems similar to those that refuted (H1) both as an interpretation of Socrates, and as an acceptable account of wisdom.

"Frodo is a warrior, " Ruoso said. "He catches the prey 80 percent of the time. "

Also known as orcas, these marine mammals often use echolocation to find their prey, which usually consists of fish and squid.

The four-toed webbed hind feet have stout claws that are used to grip prey as well as acting as stabilizers .

Crippled now, unable to find his normal prey in the scrubby forest, let alone stalk and kill it, he's driven by hunger to easier meals.

it would keep its prey alive for thousands of years, all the while slowly feeding off it.

The image, like a whirlwind, will sweep away your future, and, like a beast of prey, will devour your life. An, you're in great danger!

It is carnivorous, and will hunt prey or eat carrion, and is the size of a small dog.

In due course, having subjected Rio to this water torture, Chinalco could sell up and use the proceeds to pursue more palatable prey.

any of various large non venomous snakes that kill their prey by crushing it in its coils.

They were like hawks watching for an opportunity to snatch their prey from under the very claws of their opponents .

Walrus, ringed seals, and other animals living on the sea ice along the northern coasts, then become prey for polar bears.

But a sexy mane has its price. It gives away location to prey, makes it difficult to move through bushes, and can harbor parasites.

By emitting high-pitched sounds and listening to the echoes, also known as sonar, bats locate prey and other nearby objects.

The size of the prey's third toe is important because, among birds, long third toes are helpful for grasping branches and perching in trees.

However, gloom golems do not actually absorb the bodies of their prey.

We used choice tests to determine whether flashing lights attracted or deterred spiders from attacking palatable prey.

The seemingly empty landscape of the Kalahari Desert is full of clues to the whereabouts of potential prey for these San Bushmen hunters.

For many animals, this would be too dangerous, because watering holes are ideal places for predators to ambush their prey.