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They are preyed on by herons, cormorants, kingfishers, goosanders, large trout and eels.
Belemnite hooks are commonly found in the fossilized stomachs of marine reptiles that preyed upon them, such as ichthyosaurs.
In tributaries feeding the lake, brook trout competed with young bull trout for food and in the lake, lake trout preyed on bull trout.
They may be preyed upon by larger animals, such as large owls, coyotes, or large snakes, such as eastern massasauga rattlesnakes.
While Antarctic sponges are indeed subject to little, if any, fish predation, they are heavily preyed on by sea stars and nudibranchs.
Tadpoles and froglets can be preyed on by other frogs, crayfish, fish, turtles, and dragonfly larvae.
A fish preyed upon by so many other wild creatures for food from its first days of life, to when it becomes a full-grown fish.
From the 16th century on, Turkmen raiders on horseback preyed on passing caravans, pillaging and taking prisoners for the slave trade.
The result, especially when heterotrophs are preyed upon by other heterotrophs, is a food chain.
A heroin and cocaine addict who preyed on elderly women to feed his drugs habit has been jailed for three years.
An Essex butcher, Turpin fell in with the wrong sort and became involved with a vicious gang of robbers who preyed on isolated homes.
He preyed on female job-seekers whom he lured to secluded spots by promising them jobs.
As it grows in the river from an egg, it's bothered by brown trout, preyed on by goosanders and cormorants as well as mergansers.
Because of their association with humans, domestic dogs are not preyed upon by wild predators.
A paranoid schizophrenic who preyed on young schoolgirls is to be locked up indefinitely at a secure mental health hospital.
The periwinkle in turn is preyed upon by blue crabs and diamondback terrapins.
Although he was delighted, finally, to learn who his natural mother was, it was not something that had constantly preyed on his mind.
It was also home to animals that preyed on lemurs, among them the large, catlike fossa, which I was to encounter many times.
While captive herptiles are not preyed upon, their natural instinct is to hide when they feel threatened.
Since it had been mentioned to him on the dock, the thought that pirates had attacked her ship preyed constantly on his mind.
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A slow and cureless disease preyed on her delicate frame, and she expired in the second year of Tasso's imprisonment.
They were but human beings, food for imposture, and preyed on by deceivers.
This inconsideration, though she seldom complained, affected her spirits and preyed upon her heart.
The short-eared owl and especially the pigeon hawk consistently preyed on longspurs.
This so preyed on my mind that when the party returned, they found me delirious.
Many kinds of deer are there, to be preyed upon by man or beast, from the pretty little gyi or barking deer to the lordly sambur.
She wept bitterly, and took it to heart so, it preyed on her health and spirits.
Neither side knew which way his power might be turned, for Norman of Torn had preyed almost equally upon royalist and insurgent.
Knowing this, they are preyed upon by thousands of foreign swindlers.
His face was dark with all the passions which had preyed upon the man.
Officers also advised W's manager that in late 2007, he had been arrested and quizzed over allegations he had preyed on his own daughter.
Yet, unbeknown to him, he had preyed on a plainclothes officer who immediately called for back-up.
All this preyed on my mind, though, and I used to cry all night.
Whole families of beggars, not only preyed upon her, but tyrannized.
I have preyed on my own morbid coward heart, and it has preyed on me.
It was the question of the child's legitimacy that preyed on her mind, and, when all hope of Samuel's return was abandoned, she drowned herself and the child in the loch.
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