Her hair wild and unkempt, she no doubt resembled a feral predator as she roamed the rows of seated spectators, her exposed genitalia level with faces.
Though the greyhound was an example of careful selection by domestic breeders, Darwin imagined the dog as natural and thus offered one of his most profound metaphors: a dog that straddled the natural and domestic worlds, at once appearing intelligent and emotional like man, but physically ever the feral predator.
Once widespread across the island, Mauritius's echo parakeet population had been devastated by the destruction of the dense forests in which it lived and the introduction of feral predators that included the mongoose.
culls feral predators and competitors.
In fact, now the Indian subcontinent has the highest population of feral predators, and with that has come the highest incidence of rabies in the world.
The poison sodium monofluoroacetate is commonly used in Australia to control pests such as European rabbits, foxes, feral predators, and wild dogs such as dingoes.
This area supports both house mice and a number of predators thought to hunt using olfaction, including a native predator, the brown snake (Pseudonaja textilis), and also introduced mammalian feral predators such as cats (Felis catus) and foxes (Vulpes vulpes).
In the United States and Europe, with their much more robust sets of native predators, feral cats rarely flourish unless they are being fed by people.
In Australia and New Zealand, where they seem to be able to compete effectively with other predators, feral cats have been able to spread into wilderness areas.
They studied the impact of two predators, feral cats and kiore, or Pacific rats, on a small burrowing seabird, Cook's petrel.
The arrival of Polynesians in A.D. 400, followed by westerners in 1778, caused destruction of native forest habitat and the introduction of alien species, including malaria-carrying mosquitos, feral ungulates and predators like rats and feral cats.
