Not saying that natural predation is humane, necessarily, but it is natural.    From Wordnik.com.  [ccfinlay: Bedtime Reading] Reference

Consequently, the best strategy for prey to adopt in order to avoid moray predation is to swim into open water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference

Reports: online predation is a problem, but not actually as big a problem for kids as physical-world harassment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

Most child predation is not violent; it is coercive, persuasive, and often does not involve frank acts of penetration.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE ILLUSION OF HOME AS SANCTUARY FOR CHILDREN] Reference

Do you believe that sudden multicellularity in response to predation is best explained as a random developmental accident?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient Predator Revealed!] Reference

I know it's not how Tolkien saw orcs, but I was raised in a world where the necessity of predators and predation is recognized and acknowledged.    From Wordnik.com.  [superversive: Website update] Reference

Becker's team built a model that took both kills and the fear factor into account, and found that apprehension could explain the decrease even where predation is low.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kitteh Urbanism] Reference

Shouldn’t parents who had planned on having kids anyway be railing against this predation from the offspring of marginal parents?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trade and Natalism] Reference

While nature isn’t all red in tooth and claw as some people like to say, predation is often decidedly unpretty, and compassion is a human trait.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finally: big cat kills uncensored and uncut] Reference

Nevertheless, on more localized scales, the abundances of organisms at lower trophic levels can be strongly affected by their own predation, that is, by "top-down" control.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top-down control] Reference

GRR also televises the public debates where issues such as predation and taxation are covered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Mann: "Hail to the Chimp" Development Diary: The Campaign Trail] Reference

After each round of "predation", the remaining 10 dots are replicated and spread around the cloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cornell offers course on intelligent design] Reference

Sadly, that has led to a significant rise in 'predation'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conceptual Guerilla - Central Command in the War of Ideas] Reference

Lost with them are their ecosystem functions, such as predation in this case.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

So yes, "predation" applies equally to human predators as to other animal predators.    From Wordnik.com.  [portland indymedia - features] Reference

Here is the definition of the word "predation," according to several different dictionaries, including Websters.    From Wordnik.com.  [portland indymedia - features] Reference

"That is why this war is seen as a war of economic predation which is enriching the belligerents and their allies.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

'A self-inflicted summons to compulsion and predation. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Haunted And Confused] Reference

Also, if the bodies were buried, they are protected from predation.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2008] Reference

Perhaps that treaty was just as well; predation was a two-way process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Up In A Heaval]

Neither the amount of predation nor of parasitism was notably reduced.    From Wordnik.com.  [6 Effects on Other Organisms] Reference

They succeeded, but Stanley was protecting the fauns & nymphs from predation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Up In A Heaval]

To avoid predation, the seed must be made to germinate as quickly as possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [1 Introduction] Reference

This is clearly a control program to reduce the predation on moose and caribou.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2009] Reference

SMITH: What we think is happening is that wolves pose a risk of predation to elk.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2007] Reference

When protected from accidents and predation, ducks live a surprisingly long time.    From Wordnik.com.  [5 Chicken] Reference

This is the world of "Kids": relentless predation, callous disregard and no real joy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drugs, Sex, Whatever] Reference

However, this is not harmful predation because as the root grows, a bark develops around the hyphae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference

Evolved for optimum predation, one looked forward while the other two were set off to the sides of tire head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mid Flinx]

PACELLE: Well, I mean, you know, really, it ` s not just about protecting the animals from predation or the problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 13, 2009] Reference

In northern Australia. predation by various insect pests, such as chalcid wasps, may cause considerable seed destruction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 48] Reference

Then there are the less dangerous but much more prevalent forms of digital child-predation, including relentless marketing.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Geek Bill Of Rights] Reference

He knows that the age pushes young people into predation not merely with grinding material impoverishment. but also with toxic ideas.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Trickle-Down Culture] Reference

Lists of host-predator associations, host-predator-parasite associations, and seed-predation percentages are compiled from the literature.    From Wordnik.com.  [1. Tree products in agroecosystems: economic and policy issues.] Reference