Toni Duggan

In the past, you might have said, 'This player is technically not good - let's prey on her.' But now, the game is professional in most countries - you can't just play on that.

English Athlete

Henri Cartier-Bresson

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

French Photographer

John Ortberg

Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.

American Clergyman

Uday Kotak

When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.

Indian Businessman

Stephen Kinzer

Eagles rarely fail to catch their prey. They usually kill it quickly by breaking its neck with their powerful claws.

American Author

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Many expressions of a cat's feelings seem deeply related to the capture of live prey.

Emily Watson

I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives.

English Actress

Lord Byron

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

British Poet

Steven Seagal

Criminals usually prey on weakness. They can smell it.

American Actor

Perry Farrell

American Musician

Used when describing natural predator-prey relationships in the wild.

Nature's Circle

‘Prey’ can be used metaphorically to describe victims in human situations.

Metaphoric Use

The verb form of 'prey' emphasizes a deliberate pursuit or attack.

Predatory Behavior

In non-literal use, it describes exploitation or taking unfair advantage.

Exploitation Context

'Prey on' can highlight the weakness or susceptibility of the victims.

Vulnerability Aspect

The phrase suggests psychological manipulation or damage as well as physical.

Psychological Implication

When used as a noun, it implies the subject is defenseless or without protection.

Symbol of Helplessness

‘Prey’ underscores the harmful effects of diseases, emotions, etc., on someone.

Consequence Emphasis

 killer whales are highly social species who exhibit complex group interactions with in hierarchical dominant systems that is to say they work together to rear their young to protect their pod and to pursue prey which can occasionally include blue whales only

Killer whale society PIPE...

 decline, likely due to that it was very low population when it was protected. The main problem with climate change is that it's affecting the Arctic fox main prey the lemmings, because they live in this super-nival space below the snow.

Saving the Arctic Fox PIPE...

 predator and prey have evolved this crown Eagle into one of the most powerful birds of prey and the water chevre tain into a master of hide-and-seek with numerous skills to help it cheat death even though the

Eagle vs. Water...

 and prey for larger carnivores. As both predator and prey, survival of their species depended on crucial instinctual behaviors which we still observe in wild and domestic cats today.

Why do cats act so...

 for protection and prey capture. Even baby jellyfish, the size of a pencil eraser, have the ability to sting. Larval jellyfish, ephyrae, look like tiny flowers pulsating in the sea.

How does a jellyfish...

 have paid, but the price measures the profit of those who prey on them. This invasion of others is a raw material, efficiently and ruthlessly mined, packaged and sold at a profit.

The price of shame PIPE...

 The more the prey struggles, the more the ants engage. Right across the raid front, prey of all sizes are driven from their hiding places.

Army Ants Rampage...

 This is a Skorpiovenator, a predator. The skeleton found at the nest site was almost certainly a nest raider, preying on the hatchlings.

The Biggest Dinosaur...

 is a scorpio veneta a predator the skeleton found at the nest site was almost certainly a nest raider preying on the hatchlings

Ferocious Dinosaur...

 Because her prey doesn't stray. Portia is a spider-eating spider. This raises a few problems.

Prey

Nature's Circle

Metaphoric Use

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