predation.
掠夺,捕食,掠食,摄食
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n.noun · 名词
- 1.
- ›depredation; plundering.
- ›act of plundering or robbing.
- ›predatory behavior.
- ›a relation between animals in which one organism captures and feeds on others.
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The nonprofit Wild Animal Initiative, for example, believes we should reduce all kinds of animal suffering, even, perhaps, suffering due to predation.
A similar process of political facsimile, this time mimicking QAnon’s tendency to baselessly allege sexual predation, is also occurring worldwide.
Flattening his alleged predation into SVU tropes steers us away from the question of why 17-year-olds make dating profiles for old men and put them online with cute selfies.
One of Darwin’s great insights was the idea that everyday events—small mutations, predation, competition—could slowly change species, given time.
Catnip probably didn’t evolve in response to predation from ancient mosquitoes or fruit flies, he says.
Starvation, disease, war, and predation were common threats for a majority of our evolutionary history.
WGA is classified as a lectin—a term for a protein produced by an organism to protect itself from predation.
This “double whammy” of predation and competition enables jellyfish to cripple a food chain by essentially nibbling at its ankles.
The whole thing combines a French disregard for sexual predation with our own culture of uptight sensationalism.