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Quotes About Prey

The echolocation clicks of sperm whales are very powerful, allowing detection of prey and other things at longer ranges than vision or other senses can manage underwater.9 Sonar can also be very precise. Dolphins and porpoises with their higher frequency echolocation can build detailed pictures of their surroundings. Sonar
~ Hal Whitehead
Sonar users can sense the bottom and sides of the ocean—islands, seamounts, and coasts—as well as each other, getting detailed pictures of the shapes and inner structures (as in ultrasound scans of human pregnancies—ultrasound is sonar) of potential prey, social partners, and competitors. Sonar can also alert them to the presence of predators, but primarily the sonar of the toothed whales is about finding food.
~ Hal Whitehead
is a specialized behavior and, as a consequence, only occurs in areas where the ecology is right—where prey and sponges are available.34
~ Hal Whitehead
I'm the top of the food chain and well...you're the food.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You will always be a victim of circumstances if you want to fall prey........... else you would be its enemy
~ Siddharth Astir
Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.
~ George Eliot
If from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute.
~ Ben Carson
A rat doesn't demand supper from a wolf
~ Bernard Cornwell
You are sheep, they are wolves. Your blood will soak the hillsides, your skin will make saddles, your flesh will feed pigs!
~ Bernard Cornwell
Some death is as silent as the flight of a bird, some prey as unprotesting as a knot of rags. The
~ Sue Grafton
I held my ground, because prey retreats, and hunger follows anything that runs.
~ Joshilyn Jackson
En qué momento dejamos de ser los cazadores para convertirnos en presas?
~ Juan Gómez-Jurado
And this is what happened, ands this is why the caribou and the wolf are one; for the caribou feeds the wolf, but it is the wolf that keeps the caribou strong.
~ Farley Mowat
His gaze made her feel like a mouse in owl-country.
~ Frances Hardinge
Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.
~ Brian De Palma
Not all eagles can be trained, but those who take to life with a master display intense loyalty. Although they are not tethered, they always return after killing their prey.
~ Stephen Kinzer
This is impossible." "This what?" I clutch the collar of his shirt in my fingers. His face is so close l study the varying color of his eyes. For a long time, he says nothing. Stares at me in that way that makes me want to squirm. For a moment, it seems that his irises glow and the pupils shrink to slits. Then, he mutters, "A hunter in love with his prey
~ Sophie Jordan
..the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
~ Yann Martel, Life of Pi
I hunt therefore I am.
~ Metallica
The confirmed stick-in-the-mud will always fall victim to the interventions of other people acting on impulse, because if habit is his religion, then his Satan is change, and in the end, we are all prey to temptation.
~ Michael Chabon
And yet in her eyes there was something unreadable, something that did not want to be read, the determined blankness that in predator animals conceals hostile calculation, and in prey forms part of an overwhelming effort to seem to have disappeared.
~ Michael Chabon
The special-order French bees were prey to wanderlust and ennui. But
~ Michael Chabon
might be followed. They were the hunters, not the prey. Bosch wondered what Lewis and Clarke were doing. Did they expect that he
~ Michael Connelly
It seemed a simple matter of eliminating the cause and, in due course, the effect. From this comfortable perspective, it was absolutely astonishing to discover that "the criminal class" had found a way to prey upon progress—and indeed to carry out a crime aboard the very hallmark of progress, the railway.
~ Michael Crichton