Sentence examples for predation from inspiring English sources

All sides agreed that diversionary feeding (scattering dead chicks on the moorlands – room service for harriers) was a good way to reduce nesting hen harriers' predation of grouse.

It could be right – given certain scenarios, such as it actually benefitting the environment, reducing suffering (since animals aren't forced to die painfully with ethical hunting practises as they might with natural predation or illegal poaching, for example), and so on.

"You usually see [the frogs] if you wait for dusk, then they start swimming out, free of fear of predation by birds.

Some will be betting that this time state control will shelter their investment from predation, as well as securing access to new production licences and generosity from the tax authorities: the tax claims against Yugansk have been magically reduced by the courts by $3.9 billion since Rosneft bought it.

In the second year the ratio was a staggering 12 to one in favour of those around the edge.The major cause of predation in the colony turned out to be Black-crowned Night Herons.

Others fingered high levels of nest predation, which prompts females to seek more males to mate with, in order to produce more offspring, and leave nests untended; again, males pick up the slack.

Vadim Kleiner of Hermitage Capital, a fund that tries to drive up Gazprom's share price by exposing graft, points out that Gazprom uses a "long chain of intermediaries and costs are rising fast".Closeness to the state does offer insurance against Yukos-style predation.

Fear of state predation is certainly still there: it is one reason for this year's spate of initial public offerings by Russian firms in London.Another of those reasons is the difficulty foreign investors face in buying Russian shares.

Intel is also suspected of more direct predation: selling chips below cost in order to secure clients in the server market.

A particular population of possums may be subject to predation by cats.

The kind of resource predation that led to violence breaking out in the first place may be returning, this time with iron ore rather than diamonds as the catalyst.