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to prey on sth' von Englisch nach Deutsch
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- The marauders continued to prey on the town over the following century, and in 1244 the Prince-Bishops of Antibes moved to Grasse to escape their depredations.
- Permission to shoot western jackdaws in spring and summer exists in Cyprus as they are thought (incorrectly) to prey on gamebirds.
- The Fujiwara rulers failed to maintain adequate police forces, which left robbers free to prey on travelers.
- Though leopards do not usually feed on equids as in Africa, this may be because Persian leopards are larger and strong enough to prey on Asiatic wild asses.
- The "Haliaeetus" eagles and the osprey ("Pandion haliaetus") mainly prefer to prey on fish, which comprising more than 90% of food for the osprey and some fish eagles.
- Owls are able to prey on skunks, as they lack a sense of smell.
- Although for Hesiod Echidna was immortal and ageless, according to Apollodorus Echidna continued to prey on the unfortunate "passers-by" until she was finally killed, while she slept, by Argus Panoptes, the hundred-eyed giant who served Hera.
- One report describes a large pack of seven to 11 wolves killing a female cougar and her kittens, Although cougars can kill coyotes, the latter have been documented attempting to prey on cougar cubs.
- The fer-de-lance, one of the most venomous snakes in the New World, may have developed its highly potent venom as a means to prey on or a defense mechanism against large opossums.
- Very occasionally, they have been known to prey on northern fur seals, harbor seals, and sea otter pups.
- Unlike adults, juvenile white sharks in the area feed on smaller fish species until they are large enough to prey on marine mammals such as seals.
- Although the number of dogs killed each year by wolves is relatively low, it induces a fear of wolves entering villages and farmyards to prey on them.
- After his death, people began to die in the surrounding area and it was widely believed that Miloš had returned to prey on the neighbours.
- During the first summer of the war, Washington began outfitting schooners and other small seagoing vessels to prey on ships supplying the British in Boston.
- The buff-breasted sandpipers are known to prey on "Bombus polaris", a species of bumblebee found within the Arctic Circle.
- Another species known to prey on Lumbricidae is the Bannan caecilian.
- Canada jays are suspected but not proven to prey on nests of the threatened marbled murrelet ("Brachyramphus marmoratus") in coastal areas of the Pacific Northwest.
- Human activities have affected stocks of many species of teleost, through overfishing, Reports indicate that some of the catfish family can be large enough to prey on human bathers.
- This made the island a profitable location from which to prey on passing Bristol-bound merchant ships bringing back valuable goods from overseas.
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