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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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as a "longstanding one," predating 9/11 and the war on Iraq. Aztec dancers from the group Ritual Azteca Neuhi Ollin (``Ritual Aztec in Four Directions'') will perform a ritual predating the Spanish conquest of Mexico nearly 500 years ago. Both in The Seven Storey Mountain and The Secular Journal of Thomas Merton, he provided colorful glimpses of Cuban culture and church predating both Castro and Vatican II. |
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