In addition to these defensive uses of toxins, two annelid taxa are known to employ toxins for predatory and parasitic purposes.
Some traders, he said, were using what they called "predatory algorithms," whose sole purpose is to exploit a weakness in some other trader's algorithm and get it to make an unprofitable trade.
Predatory lawsuits serve no purpose other than lining the pockets of those who use the loophole for their own personal gain.
Why the imaginary threat of the predatory trans woman serves this purpose so well has to do with the fears it encapsulates.
But, of course, if we have learned anything over the past few decades, it's exactly the opposite: predatory behavior with no productive purpose often does pay in an era of advanced financial engineering and perverse incentives.
The government puts it slightly differently, stating that the purpose of the amendment is to "restrict predatory behaviour".
The main trade association of for-profit colleges, APSCU, seems to exist for the purpose of protecting the worst, most abusive, most predatory conduct by its member companies.
Initial reports suggested that Democrats were mostly planning to re-purpose the 2012 attacks on Mitt Romney, as a predatory capitalist, against Trump.
For this purpose, we used stuffed models of a common buzzard as a visual predatory stimulus and a pheasant, Phasianus colchicus, as a control stimulus in a habituation/dishabituation paradigm (Eimas et al. 1971).
One purpose in talking publicly, he said, is to warn others about Father Hands's predatory nature.
This could result from differing effects of EFN location among systems, or it could indicate that EFN serve other purposes, such as attracting floral visitors or other natural enemies of herbivores such as parasitoid or predatory wasps [56], [57].
