Quotes About Predation

No sabemos explicarnos por qué el halcón devora a la paloma, y nuestra ignorancia se retuerce contra el Creador del Cielo y de la tierra, origen de la justicia y fuente de todo bien.

Is there anything in the jungle too little to be killed?

When the lion feeds, many animals eat.

That's what you get for being food.

If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.

Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.

It's true: Every time you kill an elk, you're saving some cow's life.

the most ethical option is not to stop hunting animals, but to re-enter the food chain and replace the predators that we displaced. To be good stewards of such ecosystems, we have an ethical obligation to become surrogate predators.

Deer get to live in the wild, and then they die fairly quickly from a well-placed shot to the vitals. For a deer, the most likely alternatives are a slower and more painful death by a nonhuman predator (i.e., getting torn apart by a coyote), starvation, or disease. Being killed by a skilled human hunter may well be the least painful way for a deer to die.

Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

Mammals, apparently, were pretty funny to a carnivorous plant.

Not every wealthy man might choose a public life, but anyone who chose public life must be a wealthy man. Corruption, coercion and predation ensured the determined could acquire fortunes. Augustus, while still a teenager, had amassed enough money to support a private army. Ambitious men gathered the support of peers and bestowed patronage on numerous clients. Patronage, indeed, was at the heart of the whole system.

I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed.

Green darners never attack people, but they have been seen bringing down hummingbirds. They are the Bengal tigers of the microworld.

And the owlet whoops to the wolf below,That eats the she-wolf's young.

We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.

A cat's idea of a 'good time' is to kill something.

Lizards that blend into the rock do so to catch flies.

The mating rites of mantises are well known: a chemical produced in the head of the male insect says in effect, 'No, I don't go near her, you fool, she'll eat you alive.' At the same time a chemical in his abdomen says, 'Yes, by all means, now and forever yes.

Oppressors specialise in rasing wolves from amonst the sheep then together with the wolves devour the sheep

Humans hunt and kill maneaters.What if animals hunted animal eaters?!

The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed,But swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw,Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread:Besides what the grim wolf with privy pawDaily devours apace, and nothing said;But that two-handed engine at the doorStands ready to smite once, and smite no more.

Coyotes can't expect to keep friends when they eat them all the time.

Most people are like sheep. Nice, harmless creatures who want nothing more than to be left alone so they can graze. But then of course there are wolves. Who want nothing more than to eat the sheep. But there's a third kind of person. The sheepdog. Sheepdogs have fangs like wolves. But their instinct isn't predation. It's protection. All they want, what they live for, is to protect the flock.