And my dad is the most voracious reader I know.

After skiing, I find that I have a voracious appetite.

When you're small and vulnerable, like these starlings, or like the fish, it helps to swarm to avoid predators, to confuse predators.

They have sex. They hide from predators.

New predators, hyenas, getting faster and faster still.

I'm a voracious reader, a reader who deals with Ian McEwan down to Stephanie Meyer.

Well, it uses it to defend itself from its predators.

Like a lot of predators, they walk on their toes.

So how are these fish, these predators going to help?

And they go in the base of that pyramid, and they drift up they're passed up that way, on to predators and on to the top predators, and in so doing, they accumulate.

They could outsource all their problems protection from predators, food finding, health maintenance.

They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators.

The good news is that, in addition to having more predators, there's more of everything.

And this is this voracious predator launching a sneak attack on this poor little unsuspecting jellyfish there, a by the wind sailor.

It was presumably introduced into Guam via military cargo and has no natural predators in Guam.

The effect, the payback, perhaps, for years of vampire predators like Bernie Madoff, whom we saw earlier.

As I say, it's just those three simple rules, plus the one about watch out for predators.

Here's an octopus. Sometimes they don't want to be seen when they move because predators can see them.

We've heard about the Tagging of Pacific Predators project, one of the 17 Census of Marine Life projects.

First of all, your pyramid, your inverted pyramid, showing 85 percent biomass in the predators, that seems impossible.

So what we can see on this moving ocean is we can finally see where the predators are.

But what of those big predators, those fashionable species, that green list tuna that I was talking about earlier?

They have been rarely photographed, partly because they are considered one of the most dangerous predators in the ocean.

In Latin America, the number of countries with specific legislation to punish sexual predators who target children increased to nine.

But that's due to natural predators like vultures that pick them off on a beach or predatory fish that are waiting offshore.

Now, the main defense against pack hunting predators is to get into herds, and the larger the herd, the safer the individuals.

'Strong predation on a massive, heavily armored dinosaur illustrates just how dangerous the dinosaur predators of the Cretaceous must have been,' said Brown.

So the default position is just Believe all patterns are real All rustles in the grass are dangerous predators and not just the wind.

This is from a BBC show called Predators, and what we're looking at here are examples of synchrony that have to do with defense.

When it moved into its new host, the Eastern Hemlock tree, it escaped its predators, and the new tree had no resistance to it.

The German rebound was initially robust because world trade rose rapidly after a precipitous fall. China s voracious appetite for German cars and machines provided the needed boost, even as Germany s traditional trade partners in Europe struggled.

We have no significant predators, we're the masters of our physical environment the things that normally cause species to become extinct are no longer any threat to us.

If we're going to save the world from total jellyfish domination, then we've got to figure out what the jellyfish predators how they live their lives, like the Mola.

It actually uses the light from the bacteria to counter illuminate itself in an anti predation device so predators can't see its shadow, calculate its trajectory, and eat it.

So he got rid of the electricity, he got rid of current on the inside and kept it on the outside, so it would protect them against coyotes and other predators.

The heavily armoured dinosaur used red and white camouflage to hide from predators, and employed a shielding technique known as counter shading, which is also used by many modern day animals.

Even the proliferation of China s economic ties in Africa, the Middle East, and South America may reflect vulnerability rather than imperial ambition. China s voracious quest for new energy sources has already caused it to overstretch its limited ability to protect its sea lanes.

The impact of slowing global trade is most apparent for Germany, which was not burdened with excessive household or corporate debt, and enjoyed a favorable fiscal position. To escape the crisis, Germany used rapid export growth especially to meet voracious Chinese demand.

With rebalancing will come a decline in China s surplus saving, much slower accumulation of foreign exchange reserves, and a concomitant reduction in its seemingly voracious demand for dollar denominated assets. Curtailing purchases of US Treasuries is a perfectly logical outgrowth of this process.

If you stop a cat from playing which you can do, and we've all seen how cats bat around stuff they're just as good predators as they would be if they hadn't played.

There's a good reason why the shallow water's full of predators here's a barracuda and if you're an octopus or a cephalopod, you need to really understand how to use your surroundings to hide.

So now we had a system that we could actually take to some place that was kind of like an oasis on the bottom of the ocean that might be patrolled by large predators.

Plants behave in some oddly intelligent ways fighting predators, maximizing food opportunities ... But can we think of them as actually having a form of intelligence of their own? Italian botanist Stefano Mancuso presents intriguing evidence.

But a growing body of research concludes that greed is not always good, and that moral values are a necessary element in the conduct of business. The Gordon Gekkos are predators who take the quick payoff.

And, funded primarily through Sloan Foundation and others, we were able to actually go in, in our project we're one of 17 field programs and begin to take on tagging large numbers of predators, not just tunas.