Several species of Wētā are under threat from predation by birds and reptiles, and habitat loss.
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Predation
Synonyms for "predation" (2 found)
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21 translations across 15 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- хищничество noun (the preying of one animal on others)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 捕食 noun (the preying of one animal on others)
Dutch
1 entries- predatie noun (the preying of one animal on others)
Finnish
1 entries- saalistus noun (the preying of one animal on others)
French
1 entries- prédation noun (the preying of one animal on others)
Georgian
2 entries- მტაცებლობა noun (the preying of one animal on others)
- ნადირობა noun (the preying of one animal on others)
German
3 entries- Jagd noun (the preying of one animal on others)
- Prädation noun (the preying of one animal on others)
- Raub noun (the preying of one animal on others)
Indonesian
1 entries- pemangsaan noun (the preying of one animal on others)
Japanese
1 entries- 捕食 noun (the preying of one animal on others)
Korean
1 entries- 포식 noun (the preying of one animal on others)
Malay
1 entries- pemangsaan noun (the preying of one animal on others)
Polish
1 entries- drapieżnictwo noun (the preying of one animal on others)
Portuguese
2 entries- predatismo noun (the preying of one animal on others)
- predação noun (the preying of one animal on others)
Russian
2 entries- охо́та noun (the preying of one animal on others)
- хи́щничество noun (the preying of one animal on others)
Spanish
2 entries- predación noun (the preying of one animal on others)
- predación noun (the action of attacking or plundering)
Sample sentences
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Experts have said that rare footage of an endangered marsupial in outback Australia is a sign that native animals are beginning to recover from years of feral cat predation.
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There are those who perpetuate predation because they are afraid of becoming poor; there are those who accept poverty because they are afraid of falling into predation.
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Predation by introduced foxes may have altered the distribution of tufted puffins, which now nest primarily on fox-free islets just offshore from the larger islands where foxes occur.
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