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predationForm of food getting in which one animal, the predator, eats an animal of another species, the prey, immediately after killing it or, in some cases, while it is still alive. Most predators are generalists; they eat a variety of prey species. Specialist predators, such as anteaters, eat only one or a few prey species. Cannibalism is a type of predation in which an animal eats another of its own species. Seed consumption is also considered predation because the entire living embryo of a plant is destroyed. |
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From such convictions the rediscovery of the Afro-American followed logically and psychologically, for if the factory was dehumanizing, the campus and the office stultifying, and the great corporations predaceous, the Afro-American--excluded from factory, campus, office, and corporation--was the perfect symbol of cultural innocence and regeneration" (91). Planet Natural's current bestsellers are beneficial insects: Buy a bag containing thousands of ferociously predaceous Hippodamia convergens (better known as lady beetles), and your garden's potential population of harmful insects will most certainly be kept at bay. |
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