Hobbes believed that humans are driven to attack and prey on one another mainly by fear of uncertainty.
They both amplify and prey on something we humans like about ourselves.
Unfortunately, politicians are too quick to demonize technology companies and prey upon public fears, and this places revolutionary companies like Facebook in the eye of the storm.
Just like restaurants prey on the hungry and doctors prey on the sick and talk-show hosts prey on the people who are too bored to read a book.
Predators get stronger and prey gets sneakier, predators get smarter and prey gets faster, and so on, to produce the diversity and dynamism of the natural world today.
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Armand Farrachi, who heads the Collective for the Abolition of Chasse a Courre, rejects the hunters' contention that the sport reproduces the natural interplay between wolves and prey.
Using this approach, Dr Rain's group has screened 5 billion interactions between bait and prey, and managed, using its computers, to piece together whole cascades of interacting proteins.
Appropriate for a species that is both predator and prey, System One lives in a world of snap judgments, extensible metaphors, ill-informed biases, and loosely constructed rules of thumb.
Loss of habitat and prey, coupled with unsubstantiated fears inspired by children's' books and myths about the danger predators pose to human life has led to their near extinction in Europe.
" "Methodological rigor, " he claims, was their hallmark, even as he acknowledges that "all of our diagnoses are now based on subjective judgments that are inherently fallible and prey to capricious change.
For example, the major wirehouses all have retail brokers who call themselves pension experts and prey upon unsophisticated pensions, including corporate and public pensions with hundreds of millions and even billions in assets.
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In the past decade many insects, spiders, scorpions, amphibians, reptiles and rodents, as well as large mammals, have been shown to use vibrations for purposes as diverse as territorial defence, mate location and prey detection.
Even if he does stay out of the limelight and the back rooms, his followers will continue to espouse his mantras and prey upon fear and terror to manipulate the American public to further their own agendas.
Companies like University of Phoenix and others cost taxpayers money, provide subpar education, serve as diploma mills, and prey on students who may never be able to pay back the tens of thousands of dollars in student loans they take on.
"If wolves can be largely left alone, and tolerated to live in areas where they can find sufficient territory and prey to reach recovery targets, wolf recovery appears to be within our grasp, ahead of schedule and under budget, " according to Predator Project's report.
Or take Toxoplasma, a protozoan that needs to move between cats and their prey and back again in order to complete its life cycle.
The researchers conclude that smaller carnivores would have had an advantage in environments with predominantly fast prey, and bigger ones where prey was slower and larger.
They were probably used by hunters to kill reindeer, mammoth and giant elk and to cut up prey and prepare their skins.
But Dr Brunton's results suggest that when predators have more dimensions of action than prey as is the case when they are flying and the prey are on the ground, the reverse is true.
With the controversial reintroduction of grey wolves to Yellowstone in 1995, the ecosystem here is complete again, with every predator, from wolves to grizzly bears, and every prey species, such as elk, moose, bighorn sheep and bison, that belongs here.
First, it has used smaller, faster boats to get between the harpoon ships and their prey.
It seems more characteristically leonine to leap at the weak and slow prey.
He has also promised to tackle corruption among judges, many of whom are poorly trained and easy prey to bribery.
The centre opened in 1993 as a place to rescue and care for rare birds of prey and exotic animals.
Informal businesses have lower wages, lower growth rates, poorer safety records, tend not to pay taxes and are prey to corruption.
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Often the switcher faces the full financial and strategic force of his or her abandoned political party during the re-election campaign and falls prey to a party scorned.
The researchers report in the Journal of Animal Ecology that although on the whole big animals are indeed better at handling and killing prey, the largest wolves struggled in the chase.
The WDCS says the frequency ranges of some noise sources of human origin may be blotting out other, biologically important sounds, preventing mothers and calves from staying in touch and masking sound cues for predators and their prey.
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First used for hunting, a fully-trained, swift and sharp-eyed falcon would bring back prey and be rewarded.
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