Poachers Sentence Examples

It has been suggested that the above-mentioned callosities or " chestnuts " on the limbs of horses are vestigial scent-glands; and it is noteworthy that scrapings or shavings from their surface have a powerful attraction for other horses, and are also used by poachers and burglars to keep dogs silent.

Now we are expected to believe the poachers have become the gamekeepers.

The demand for baby chimps encourages poachers to hunt them in the jungles of West Africa.

Until the start of a community wildlife conservancy in 1988, Damaraland was unprotected and open to poachers.

Now, poachers also electrocute the animals by dangling wires connected to high tension powerlines across rhino paths.

Ken and Kris discover poachers who are shooting elk with a crossbow to cut off the antlers.

Once bred primarily for tracking down and holding poachers, the breed is now most commonly used as a reliable family companion and home guard dog.

There were a growing number of bloody affrays between the local poachers and the gamekeepers, who were usually from England or Scotland.

Among his most important canvases must be reckoned "The Pilot Cutter" in 1866, "The Salmon Poachers" in 1869, "The Lifeboat" in 1876, "Highland Pastures" in 1878, "The Beached Margent of the Sea" in 1880, "The Newhaven Packet" (bought by the Birmingham Corporation), and "Catspaws off the Land" (bought by the Chantrey Fund trustees); in 1885, "Mount's Bay" (bought by the Manchester Corporation) in 1886, "Nearing the Needles" in 1888, "Machrihanish Bay, Cantyre," in 1892, "Hove-to for a Pilot" in 1893, and "Glen Orchy," a landscape, in 1895.