The remaining five predatory taxa were sighted either evenly or at increasing frequencies with increasing human population density, and included the smallest species of grouper (graysby, Cephalopholis cruentata and coney, C. fulva) and snapper (mahogany snapper, Lutjanus mahogoni and lane snapper, L. synagris), as well as the relatively unfished trumpetfish (Aulostomus maculatus).
They can change a host's personality so that rats boldly sniff hay stained with cat urine, killifish get an inexplicable urge to thrash wildly at the water's surface in sight of predatory herons, and pillbugs suddenly shun the dark safety of leaf litter -- all to ensure that these animals become the next meal of the parasite's next host.
Another function is signalling — for instance, a ladybird is less likely to be attacked by predatory birds that hunt by sight, if it has bold warning colours, and is also distastefully bitter or poisonous, or mimics other distasteful insects.
Encore: Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades is Out to Get Us! Chicago.
Not so long ago the American Telephone and Telegraph Company was almost universally regarded as a puma amidst newborn kittens -- a powerful beast, whose predatory instincts made it untrustworthy out of sight of its Government keepers.
In January 2013, a Metropolitan Police report said Savile had been a "prolific, predatory sex offender" who was able to "hide in plain sight" while abusing his victims.
These claims of child sexual exploitation are certainly not restricted to an era where predatory paedophiles were free to carry out their abuses in plain sight.
Setting her sights on a handsome young valet (Ryan Phillippe), she zeroes in with the predatory sang-froid of the truly entitled.
Predatory loan companies offer the unrepayable in order to bring the unsavable within sight of essentials that are now aspirational.
When, for instance, he watches kids in the playground of a local school, "so tiny and useless you couldn't believe they'd been let out of the sight of their mums and dads", it's hard to know whether to read that "useless" aspitying, predatory, amused or concerned.
