predator
 be/fall prey to sb/sth
to be harmed or deceived by someone or something :
The once-successful property development company has fallen prey to the current economic crisis.
FINANCE
to be bought by a larger, more powerful company or organization:
The bank seems likely to fall prey to a bigger organization.

Examples of prey

prey
An additive effect is when predation by two predators is equal to the sum of prey removed by each individual predator alone.
Typically, an object of interest (such as a prey species) is of a different material than the background, and therefore it will affect light differently.
Permanent lakes contain fish, which preferentially prey upon large individuals.
The stems were prepared as described above, and infested with prey as for the mixed prey density treatment (iv) previously described.
These findings indicate that the large ganglionic neurons are output neurons to the descending motor pathway for both prey catching and avoidance behavior.
Observations on the vertical distribution of the biological control agents within substrate profiles, in the absence of prey, may be considered of limited value.
Occasionally, we observed jumping spiders preying on marked flies shortly after release.
Foraging on prey that are modified by parasites.
Cats may acquire infection only when they begin to eat prey.
It also produces a matrix with consumers (lizard species) as rows and proportional utilizations (pi) of prey by volume for each prey type as columns.
Biological differences mirror differences in climate; the acutely developed senses of many species have adapted either for capturing prey or eluding predators, and so forth.
Both species are highly suitable hosts for the parasite, and form the preferred prey for red foxes.
The parameter represents the losses of prey not due to predation, and the product ac describes the asymptote of the hyperbolic response.
At the end of the experiment, the fish and the vegetation were removed and left over prey items of the 2 classes were scored.
Within an unknown time period, deer mice develop metacestode infections and eventually are preyed upon by foxes, the definitive host.
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Collocations withprey

prey

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alternative prey
The availability of alternative prey may have affected the quantities of slug consumed, but clearly did not prevent the beetles from reducing slug populations.
easy prey
They fall easyprey to capitalism.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
large prey
A spear can bring down largeprey from a safe distance.
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