By preying on the sick, by playing callously on the hopes of the desperate, by causing the sufferer to delay proper medical care, these medical ghouls create pain and misery by their very activity.

They were the top land predators, sometimes reaching several meters in length, preying on the large insects of the period and many types of fish in the water.

An early Muslim tradition is that the Negus Ashama ibn Abjar offered asylum to a group of Muslims fleeing persecution during Muhammad's life ( 615 ), but Stuart Munro-Hay believes that Axum had been abandoned as the capital by then – although Kobishchanov states that Ethiopian raiders plagued the Red Sea, preying on Arabian ports at least as late as 702.

French buccaneers established a settlement on the island of Tortuga in 1625, and were soon joined by like minded English and Dutch privateers and pirates, who formed a lawless international community that survived by preying on Spanish ships and hunting wild cattle.

According to writer Mike Carey, " the events leading up to Messiah Complex, Iceman got blindsided by Mystique " are " still preying on to a large extent " and " some of those events be revisited.

Killer whales have also been observed preying on terrestrial mammals, such as deer and moose swimming between islands off the northwest coast of North America.

Although there are anecdotes of unprovoked Komodo dragons attacking or preying on humans, most of these reports are either not reputable or caused by defensive bites.

There have been isolated observations of walruses preying on seals up to the size of a bearded seal.

Rarely, incidents of walruses preying on seabirds, particularly the Brünnich's Guillemot Uria lomvia, have been documented.

Groups of female lions typically hunt together, preying mostly on large ungulates.

Jewish hunting law, based on the Torah, is similar, permitting hunting of non-preying animals that are considered kosher for food, although hunting preying animals for food is strictly prohibited under Rabbinic law.

Bermudian merchant vessels turned to privateering at every opportunity, during the 18th Century, preying on the shipping of Spain, France and other nations during a series of wars.

All chaetognaths are carnivorous, preying on other planktonic animals.

Originally preying on Puglia's substantial wine and olive oil industries, the group moved into fraud, gunrunning and drug trafficking and made alliances with international criminal organizations such as the Russian and Albanian mafias, Colombian drug cartels, Chinese Triads, and Japanese Yakuza.

The Barbary corsairs were pirates and privateers that operated from North African ( the " Barbary Coast ") ports of Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli and ports in Morocco, preying on shipping in the western Mediterranean Sea from the time of the Crusades as well as on ships on their way to Asia around Africa until the early 19th century.

Bermudian merchant vessels turned to privateering at every opportunity in the 18th century, preying on the shipping of Spain, France, and other nations during a series of wars.

Evidence also suggests that, in 321-331 BC, Egyptian birds were preying on Mediterranean rats, though this is not enough to prove that Egypt was the source of the rats.

Pinnes, the son of Agron and Agron's first wife Triteuta, officially succeeds his father as king, but the kingdom is effectively ruled by Agron's second wife, Queen Teuta ( Tefta ), who expels the Greeks from the Illyrian coast and then launches Illyrian pirate ships into the Ionian Sea, preying on Roman shipping.

The triangular formation of the holes, their size and shape and their presence on both sides of the shells, corresponding to the upper and lower jaws, is evidence of the bite of a medium-sized mosasaur preying upon ammonites.

by preying on insects and spiders.

The Appalousa were a warlike tribe, preying on their neighbors to keep their own territory.

Pocock presumed that they are adapted for preying upon herbivorous mammals of considerable bulk because of their powerful build, the deep penetration of their bite, attested by their long canines.

In the middle of the 19th century the area was known as a haven for bandits and highway robbers, who hid in the oak groves and canyons, preying on traffic on the coastal route between the towns that developed around the missions.

In the midst of this, in 1637, De Ruyter became captain of a private ship meant to hunt for raiders operating from Dunkirk who were preying on Dutch merchant shipping.

The acacia ant ( Pseudomyrmex ferruginea ) protects the bullhorn acacia ( Acacia cornigera ) from preying insects and from other plants competing for sunlight, and the tree provides nourishment and shelter for the ant and its larvae.

As well as preying off the clans, caterans acted as mercenaries for Lowland lairds pursuing disputes amongst themselves.

The archerfish ( Spinner Fish or Archer Fish ) are a family ( Toxotidae ) of fish known for their habit of preying on land based insects and other small animals by literally shooting them down with water droplets from their specialized mouths.

Using night vision gear, ecologists observed the skuas preying on the petrels at night, a remarkable strategy for a seabird.

At one time, Cooper's Hawks were heavily hunted in persecution for preying on poultry and were called " chicken hawks ".

Because New Providence's harbour was close to the Florida Strait, it became a nest for pirates preying on mainly Spanish shipping returning to Spain with gold, silver, and other wealth.

" Responding to reports that reprints of the pamphlet were being sold as pornography for a gay audience, Young said: " This indicates how bold the homosexual is becoming and further proves the necessity of state government taking the lead in responsibility for preventing these confirmed homosexuals from preying on the youth of the state.

Jones had been preying upon British commerce aboard the but only now saw the opportunity for higher command.

Reader's Digest in the UK has been criticised by the Trading Standards Institute for preying on the elderly and vulnerable with misleading bulk mailings that claim the recipient is guaranteed a large cash prize and advising them not to discuss this with anyone else.

The ants prey on the geckos, stinging and attacking in great numbers and also compete with the geckos for food by preying on arthropods.

Rescue operas were popular at the time, since Muslim pirates were preying on Mediterranean shipping, particularly to obtain slaves for various purposes.

Nevertheless, in 238 BC-237 BC, Rome annexed Sardinia and Corsica on the pretext that the Carthaginian navy had been preying on Roman shipping ; this claim was probably a baseless excuse for expanding Roman influence in the Mediterranean Sea by seizing an island located in a strategic position.

A Bushwhacker is a rebel Jayhawker, or a rebel who bands with others for the purpose of preying upon the lives and property of Union citizens.

Their snout morphology is ideally suited for preying on fish.

In 2000, Johnson sponsored legislation that would require background checks for volunteers working in private groups, claiming " This turns the spotlight on the leeches of our society who are preying on our children.

They have developed such a strong bite for a lizard their size due to specializing in preying on beetles.

They have also been observed preying on the eggs of other bird species such as gulls, terns, ducks, and even other turnstones, though this behavior is uncommon.

In developed areas of England, Rough-legged Buzzards have been recorded preying most regularly on large prey such as common wood pigeon and invasive European rabbits.

All Regulus species are almost exclusively insectivorous, preying on small arthropods with soft cuticles, such as springtails, aphids and spiders.

All species of kinglet are almost exclusively insectivorous, preying on small arthropods with soft cuticles, such as springtails, aphids and spiders.

They also have other similarities, such as being sit-and-wait predators and preying upon ants, so the two species are considered a great example of convergent evolution.

" The Golden Age " is also a term used to describe the Golden Age of Piracy, the time period from 1690 to 1725 when well-known pirates such as Edward Teach ( Blackbeard ) and Bartholomew Roberts were preying on mercantile ships, and sometimes even blockading ports, on both sides of the Atlantic.

Their diet consists primarily of other insects, though adult females can sometimes take down small vertebrate prey such as reptiles and amphibians ( some have also been documented preying on hummingbirds ).

Like all wolves, arctic wolves hunt in packs, preying mainly on caribou and muskoxen, but also arctic hares, seals, ptarmigan, lemmings, and smaller animals such as waterfowl.

They are one of the few predators of toxic animals such as the sea hare Aplysia and boxfish Ostraciidae and have even been reported preying on crown-of-thorns starfish.

Dinosaurs that lived alongside Einiosaurus include the basal ornithopod Orodromeus, hadrosaurids ( such as Hypacrosaurus, Maiasaura, and Prosaurolophus ), the ankylosaurs Edmontonia and Euoplocephalus, the tyrannosaurid Daspletosaurus ( which appears to have been a specialist of preying on ceratopsians ), as well as the smaller theropods Bambiraptor, Chirostenotes, Troodon, and Avisaurus.