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  2. Predation - Wikipedia

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    Spider wasps paralyse and eventually kill their hosts, but are considered parasitoids, not predators.. At the most basic level, predators kill and eat other organisms. However, the concept of predation is broad, defined differently in different contexts, and includes a wide variety of feeding methods; moreover, some relationships that result in the prey's death are not necessarily called pre

  3. List of large carnivores known to prey on humans - Wikipedia

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    Tiger by Adolphe Philippe Millot (Nouveau Larousse illustré, c. 1900). This is a list of large carnivores known to prey on humans.. The order Carnivora consists of numerous mammal species specialized in eating flesh.

  4. Maneater - Wikipedia

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    Maneater or man-eater may refer to: . Man-eating animal, an individual animal or being that preys on humans as a pattern of hunting behavior; Man-eating plant, a fictional form of carnivorous plant large enough to kill and consume a human or other large animal

  5. Predation problem - Wikipedia

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    A snowy owl carries a killed American black duck. The predation problem or predation argument refers to the consideration of the harms experienced by animals due to predation as a moral problem, that humans may or may not have an obligation to work towards preventing.

  6. Cat predation on wildlife - Wikipedia

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    Cats kill billions of wild birds each year. This feral cat near Brisbane has caught a Pale-headed rosella.. Cat predation on wildlife is the result of the natural instincts and behavior of both feral and owned house cats to hunt small prey, including wildlife.

  7. Avivore - Wikipedia

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    In certain biotopes, birds constitute the bulk of the diet of various carnivorans, e.g., of adult leopard seals that mostly prey on penguins, the Arctic fox living in coastal areas where colonies of murres, auks, gulls and other seabirds abound and stoats in New Zealand against whom flightless birds like the takahe and kiwi are defenseless.

  8. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service - Wikipedia

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    The origins of the agency predate creation of USDA, to 1854 when the Office of Entomologist, Agricultural Section, U.S. Patent Office was created. It was the first of three agencies that eventually were merged to form APHIS. [2]

  9. Coyote - Wikipedia

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    The coyote (Canis latrans), also known as the American jackal, prairie wolf, or brush wolf, is a species of canine native to North America.It is smaller than its close relative, the gray wolf, and slightly smaller than the closely related eastern wolf and red wolf.