Word: preys
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...estimated 100,000 of the mammals die annually when they are inadvertently trapped in tuna nets. Most of the slaughter is in the eastern Pacific from Chile to Southern California, where, for reasons still unknown to biologists, dolphins tend to school with yellowfin tuna. The dolphins fall prey to the purse-seine method of netting, in which fishermen cast a large net around a school of tuna and then pull it taut like the drawstring of a purse. The canners said last week they will no longer accept tuna caught in the region unless it has been harvested without snaring...
...single gang like Kavera's claims to hit as many as 30 tourists a day during the peak season, when the sidewalks and beaches are plump with prey. Kavera happily recalls the cameras lying on towels, the bags left unattended. "Tourists can be so stupid," he muses. In January, 26 guests, including Americans, Danes, Austrians and Spaniards, went on a hunger strike at a Copacabana hotel to protest the management's refusal to reimburse them for valuables stolen from 50 of the hotel's 94 safes. "There is no question that crime in Rio, especially violent crime, is increasing," says...
...sidewalks and beaches of the Brazilian city are usually plump with thieves' prey at festival time. But grim and mounting homicides and robberies are making it hard to sell...
...beauty of handmade duck decoys has long been appreciated by many, if not by ducks. Now collectors are discovering another variety of folk art: fish decoys. They have traditionally been used by ice fishers to lure prey within - spearing range. Last month a 9-in. hand-carved trout with glass eyes and metal fins snared $18,700 at Sotheby's in New York City...
...first time this season, the Crimson squads fell prey to the injury bug last Saturday at Brown. Unable to perform up to their full potential, the men fell to Dartmouth and Brown by a 79-59-34 margin. The women were slightly more successful, totaling 51 points to place second, ahead of Dartmouth's 30-point total but behind Brown's winning 67-point effort...