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predator

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predator
any carnivorous animal

predator [′pred·əd·ər]
(ecology)
An animal that preys on other animals as a source of food.


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The songs lasted about 30 minutes, and they differed from the duets that gibbons perform when no predator is present.
Clarke elicited predator songs by placing realistic models of threatening animals in trees where an entire group of gibbons could see them.
Ironically, his research surrounding the attacks of alligators, sharks and panthers has led him to question whether perhaps man is the greatest predator of all.
 
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