live trap
Britishnoun
verb
Example Sentences
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For bears that are intent on hanging around town, the team can use a live trap: A tube-shaped container, baited with seal meat, with a door that the bear triggers when it climbs inside.
From BBC • Dec. 17, 2024
The wild cat had initially been captured in a live trap between Forsyth and Maroa, Illinois, by a private landowner, according to the Herald & Review, a local newspaper.
From Washington Times • Nov. 15, 2023
That means after they've recorded an individual they live trap it in a net, chill it to put it into torpor - a hibernation state so it can be handled safely.
From BBC • Jul. 31, 2023
In an early published paper on trap performance, he tests out seven kinds of traps, catching possums and taking fairly basic notes: In a live trap, how often was the animal injured, and how badly?
From Salon • Jan. 12, 2022
He directed a truck to bring a big, live trap to within about three hundred feet of the dead hound, which was then dragged across the ground and put into the trap.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
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