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Recent Examples of predatorIf not properly removed, the scent can attract new bats—or even predators like raccoons.—Kathy Barnes, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Aug. 2025 Given its lack of jaws and teeth, the lumpy fish potentially used its unexpected anatomy to evade the predators who were evolving chompers.—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2025 But native predators may be starting to fight back, according to researchers who have documented cases of alligators, cottonmouth snakes and bobcats killing Burmese pythons.—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2025 Grooming also helps mask scent from potential predators.—Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for predator
Matt Davis, a scientist with the Maine Department of Marine Resources, told WGME that warmer weather from climate change could cause sharks to hang around the area until later in the year than usual.
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Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
13 Aug. 2025
In one high-profile case, a Chinese vessel was caught inside the Galápagos Marine Reserve with 300 tons of marine life, including 6,000 dead sharks, in 2017.
Part of the inspiration for using the fight scenes between Driver and Johansson from the film are to illustrate to the wolves that humans are to be feared, Paul Wolf, a USDA district supervisor in Oregon, told the WSJ.
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Alli Rosenbloom,
CNN Money,
4 Aug. 2025
The conflict among wolves, prey and people is real.
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