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main prey

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main
adjective[before noun]
uk /meɪn/ us /meɪn/
larger, more important, or having more influence than others of the ...
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prey
noun[U]
uk /preɪ/ us /preɪ/
an animal that is hunted and killed for food by ...
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In males the mainprey type was anuran tadpoles.
Predators and parasitoids were categorized into the environment of their mainprey/hosts.
Its mainprey varies by region.
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Their mainprey are small invertebrates.
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The fish feed on tadpoles, a mainprey item.
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As the name implies, fish is their mainprey.
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Seasonally, arthropods may be a mainprey item.
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The mainprey species, though, are bandicoots and several rodents.
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Tibetan foxes are mostly solitary, daytime hunters as their mainprey, pikas, are diurnal.
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This shows that these owls can change their mainprey depending on what is available.
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Its mainprey is toads, but it also eats small mammals, amphibians, and other reptiles.
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It feeds on reptiles, small mammals and amphibians, but its mainprey is diurnal lizards.
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Their needle-like teeth are highly adapted for impaling fish, their mainprey.
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Its mainprey are bony fish and other crustaceans, such as shrimp, mysids and amphipods.
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The longfin crevalle jack is a predatory fish, taking small fish as its mainprey.
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Its mainprey are usually prawns and other crustaceans, and fish.
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The eagle's mainprey was the moa, which went extinct in the 15th century.
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Small bony fishes are the mainprey of the nervous shark, while crustaceans, molluscs, and snakes may also be taken.
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It takes rodents and other small mammals as its mainprey, but will also feed on birds and insects.
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In the rainforests of the north, the mainprey consists of magpie geese, rodents and agile wallabies.
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Its mainprey are tree-dwelling mammals and a majority of the diet has been shown to focus on sloths and monkeys.
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Intensive dry condition in wide areas of leopard habitats in recent years is affecting leopard mainprey species such as wild goat and wild sheep.
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It takes rodents, shrews and other small mammals as its mainprey, but will also feed on birds, bats and insects.
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