Sentence examples for major predator from inspiring English sources

Without any major predator, insect pests will multiply and spread.

They are the major predator of bacteria, and in consuming them they release nitrogen and other nutrients to plants.

In the tropical north the cane toad (Bufo marinus) is believed to be a major predator of small native vertebrates.

Whatever the case, it has been proposed that the giant triton, as a major predator of COTS, has a role sin regulating the populations of COTS.

The loss of the sharks from Florida could lead to a series of knock-on consequences for a marine ecosystem that has developed with them as major predator.

"And then maybe four, five minutes later, a Cooper's hawk" — a major predator of small birds — "would cruise by," he said.

Honey badgers, safari ants, bee wolves, and bears are also major predators.

They are known to be major predators of both seeds and other invertebrates.

In Africa, the mousedeer or water chevrotain uses a similar strategy to avoid one of its major predators, the eagle.

From the late Paleocene to the middle Eocene, Diatryma and its relatives were major predators in the Northern Hemisphere.

Not only have these lizards escaped most of their interspecific competitors, they have also escaped all of their major predators.