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  2. Depredation - Wikipedia

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    Depredation may refer to: Military raiding, particularly for the purposes of pillage; Damage to agriculture attributed to pests; Robbery, especially grave or tomb robbing

  3. Raid (military) - Wikipedia

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    Raiding, also known as depredation, is a military tactic or operational warfare "smash and grab" mission which has a specific purpose.Raiders do not capture and hold a location, but quickly retreat to a previous defended position before enemy forces can respond in a coordinated manner or formulate a counter-attack.

  4. Depredation permit - Wikipedia

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    A depredation permit allows a person in the U.S. to shoot certain birds and animals on their own property to protect crops, livestock, or domestic animals according to various rules and regulations. The U.S. Federal Government allows depredation permits for migratory birds on farmland. [ 1 ]

  5. Predation - Wikipedia

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    Spider wasps paralyse and eventually kill their hosts, but are considered parasitoids, not predators.. At the most basic level, predators kill and eat other organisms. However, the concept of predation is broad, defined differently in different contexts, and includes a wide variety of feeding methods; moreover, some relationships that result in the prey's death are not necessarily called pre

  6. United States Senate Committee on Indian Depredations

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    The committee oversaw claims under the Indian Depredation Act, which allows for citizen claims against the federal government for crimes committed by American Indians. Many committee petitioners requested that claims for crimes committed during wartime be eligible for compensation, because the act limited claims to depredations committed in ...

  7. Willing Expedition - Wikipedia

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    The Willing Expedition, also called Willing's Depredation, [1] was a 1778 military expedition launched on behalf of the American Continental Congress by Captain James Willing during the American War of Independence.

  8. Predation problem - Wikipedia

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    A snowy owl carries a killed American black duck. The predation problem or predation argument refers to the consideration of the harms experienced by animals due to predation as a moral problem, that humans may or may not have an obligation to work towards preventing.

  9. Human–wildlife conflict - Wikipedia

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    Human-wildlife interactions have occurred throughout man's prehistory and recorded history. An early form of human-wildlife conflict is the depredation of the ancestors of prehistoric man by a number of predators of the Miocene such as saber-toothed cats, leopards, and spotted hyenas.