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  • Unlike brown recluse spiders, whose venom is cytotoxic, meaning it is meant to slow down the prey, partially digesting the tissues and making for failure of the prey's systems, the black widow spider's venom is based on a neurotoxin, which I would much prefer.

    Ze Widow, She Is Black Heather McDougal 2009

  • Unlike brown recluse spiders, whose venom is cytotoxic, meaning it is meant to slow down the prey, partially digesting the tissues and making for failure of the prey's systems, the black widow spider's venom is based on a neurotoxin, which I would much prefer.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Heather McDougal 2009

  • September 1st, 2009 12: 25 pm ET and down South is what happen's when the GOP prey's on the uneducated

    Polls: Christie still on top in NJ gov race 2009

  • In Predator 2, the bad guys - for all their monomaniacal predatory focus - are fair-minded enough to honor a human prey's victory.

    MIND MELD: Bad Guys We Love to Hate: The Best Film Villains in SF/F/H (with Various Videos of Villainy) 2009

  • Twelve digit ships are destroyed, and vast stretches of cropland, and the prey's herdmasters have nothing to say to us.

    I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010

  • He follows a deadly insect down the wall of an African hut to its sleeping prey's eye.

    Three books on deadly creatures 2010

  • It could be destroyed just before the troops went down to test the prey's abilities.

    I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010

  • We guessed some of the prey's advantages: his greater numbers, his knowledge his own territory, his grasp of an inferior technology that he ha at least built himself, with no thuktunthp for guidance.

    I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010

  • By reducing the dominant prey's abundance, the keystone predator releases competitively inferior prey from suppression by that dominant species.

    Predation 2009

  • A silent moment passed as this culprit wondered at his prey's unsatisfactory flaccidity.

    Pros and Cons of Wildflower Collection 2009

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