Pleasant Island
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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In a paper published earlier this year, they found wolves on Pleasant Island caused a deer population to plummet and switched to primarily eating sea otters in just a few years.
From Science Daily • Oct. 31, 2023
The gray wolves on Pleasant Island attack the sea otters when they haul out onto the island’s rocky shores to rest.
From Science Magazine • Jan. 25, 2023
To scientists’ surprise, though, wolves on nearby Pleasant Island have avoided that fate.
From Science Magazine • Jan. 22, 2023
But unlike the Coronation Island wolves, the Pleasant Island wolves have persisted.
From Science Magazine • Jan. 22, 2023
We remained out by Pleasant Island all day, and shipped a lot of oil, for which Hayston paid the traders in arms and ammunition; we then stood away for Ocean Island.
From A Modern Buccaneer by Boldrewood, Rolf
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