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Sharks : built for the hunt
\"With amazing speed and razor-sharp teeth, a shark is one of the deadliest hunters in the ocean. Learn what makes sharks such dangerous predators, from their hunting styles to what they like to eat. Fun facts and an \"Amazing but true!\" section give you a closer look at the lives of these incredible creatures.\"--Back cover.
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Predatory Economies
A study of the modes of predation used by and against
the Sanema people of Venezuela. Predation is central to
the cosmology and lifeways of the Sanema-speaking Indigenous people
of Venezuelan Amazonia, but it also marks their experience of
modernity under the socialist \"Bolivarian\" regime and its immense
oil wealth. Yet predation is not simply violence and plunder. For
Sanema people, it means a great deal more: enticement, seduction,
persuasion. It suggests an imminent threat but also opportunity and
even sanctuary.
Amy Penfield spent two and a half years in the field, living
with and learning from Sanema communities. She discovered that
while predation is what we think it is-invading enemies, incursions
by gold miners, and unscrupulous state interventions-Sanema are not
merely prey. Predation, or appropriation without reciprocity, is
essential to their own activities. They use predatory techniques of
trickery in hunting and shamanism activities, while at the same
time, they employ tactics of manipulation to obtain resources from
neighbors and from the state. A richly detailed ethnography,
Predatory Economies looks beyond well-worn tropes of
activism and resistance to tell a new story of agency from an
Indigenous perspective.
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Crocodiles : built for the hunt
\"With shocking speed, a crocodile can lunge at its prey and grab it with its strong jaws and razor-sharp teeth. Learn what makes crocodiles such deadly predators, from their hunting styles to what they like to eat. Fun facts and an \"Amazing but true!\" section give you a closer look at the lives of these amazing creatures.\"--Back cover.
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Attack on Titan: a record of predation on the Chinese reddish mantis Hierodula chinensis
Prey-predator interaction is a phenomenon important to our understanding of community dynamics. Mantises and web-weaving spiders are predators that belong to the same guild, and they can be each other's predator and prey. However, their relationship is generally asymmetrical, with spiders often being the prey of the mantises. Here, we report a rare opposite case in which an adult female mantis, Hierodula chinensis Werner, 1929, was preyed upon by the orb-web weaving spider Gibbaranea abscissa (Karsch, 1879), without using a web, in a late autumn field in Japan. We suggest that differences in cold tolerance allowed the small spider to hunt a mantis prey that was approximately eight times its size.
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Snakes : built for the hunt
\"Some snakes squeeze their prey. Some snakes use their venom to kill their prey. Whatever their style, snakes are deadly predators. Learn what makes snakes such amazing predators, from their hunting styles to what they like to eat. Fun facts and an \"Amazing but true!\" section give you a closer look at the lives of these slithering creatures.\"--Back cover.
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Intraguild Predation of the Acariphages Phytoseiulus persimilis Ath.-H. in Shared Habitats
The relationships between the acariphages Phytoseiulus persimilis and Feltiella luboviae, narrow oligophages used to protect plants from spider mites in greenhouses, were studied under laboratory conditions. Their behavior was studied in terms of their possible intraguild predation (IGP) at different densities of their shared prey, the spider mite Tetranychus urticae. Our results suggest that Ph. persimilis can distinguish the eggs of its potential competitor F. luboviae from the morphologically different eggs of the spider mite, and the eggs of F. luboviae from the morphologically similar eggs of the specialized aphidophage Aphydoletes aphidimyza. Phytoseiulus persimilis can destroy the eggs of the acariphagous gall midge; in the experiment, the egg elimination rate increased as the prey density decreased. At the same time, Ph. persimilis ignored eggs of the aphidophagous gall midge. The larvae of F. luboviae showed no aggression towards eggs of the predatory mite but were able to prey on early immature stages of this mite, regardless of the density of the main prey. Phytoseiulus persimilis and F. luboviae can be both intraguild predators and intraguild prey for each other, but their level of IGP predation appears to be low.
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Tigers : built for the hunt
\"Using their keen eyesight, amazing sense of smell and sharp teeth and claws, tigers can stalk and kill prey twice their size. Learn what makes tigers such fearsome predators, from their hunting styles to what they like to eat. Fun facts and an \"Amazing but true!\" section give you closer look at the lives of these beautiful but deadly creatures.\"--Back cover.
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Killer whales : built for the hunt
\"With bodies designed to help them hide in the water, killer whales search the ocean for their next meal. Learn what makes killer whales such deadly predators, from their hunting styles to what they like to eat. Fun facts and an \"Amazing but true!\" section give you a closer look at the lives of these huge creatures.\"--Back cover.
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Animal vigilance : monitoring predators and competitors
Animal Vigilance builds on the author's previous publication with Academic Press (Social Predation: How Group Living Benefits Predators and Prey) by developing several other themes including the development and mechanisms underlying vigilance, as well as developing more fully the evolution and function of vigilance.Animal vigilance has been.
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