BBC News - Killer plant 'eats' great tit at Somerset nursery

[Andrew Taylor <>]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 05:10:48AM -0700, David James wrote:
> ps, if you don't understand me, please research the meaning of "predate" 

Come on, "predate" meaning prey has been in use for over half a century
and is common in ornithological literure.  If I tell you use of the
homonym "date" to refer to the fruit of the palm predates its use to
refer to time, are you going to use "date" only to refer to the fruit
of the palm?

Andrew