Sentences with word «pilferer»

In 1998, hooded kleptomaniac Garrett basically created the stealth»em up, but in this reboot he's more pilferer of past...

Indeed, a virtual pilferer being sent off to purgatory on a red tractor is an absurdist drama that brings to mind Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco rather than Samuel Alito and John Roberts.

For example, when ravens are being watched, they hide food more quickly and are less likely to return to a previously made cache, both of which might reveal the location of a cache to a possible pilferer.

Presumably, sophisticated caching techniques maximize the squirrels» ability to remember where they've stored their most prized treats while at the same time hiding them from potential pilferers, the researchers said.

Immediately something is awry with these two prolific pilferers and it's not just the missing sense of adventure players have come to expect.

Apart from this twice weekly meeting which everyone, including all the staff, attended, other counselling groups were held for boys with special problems, such as the petty pilferers and the sexual offenders.

But they are professional... professional pilferers.

«It shows that the pilferers are strategizing; they're aware that the other bird is listening, and if they're going to spy successfully, they need to be quiet,» Shaw says.

These findings, the scientists report, «suggest that jays relate information about their previous experience as a pilferer to the possibility of future stealing by another bird, and modify their caching strategy accordingly.»

«We show that ravens... can generalize from their own experience using the peephole as a pilferer and predict that audible competitors could potentially see their caches (through the peephole),» the authors write.

In European culture, it is widely accepted that magpies (Pica pica) are the pilferers of the bird kingdom, unconditionally attracted to sparkly things and prone to pinching them for their nests, almost as a compulsion.

Dia's illusions about her father's nobility of character, and about the Southern male code of chivalry, were shattered; Major Hockaday's illusions about the importance of having Dia all to himself, about his own judgment in leaving her (based on an illusion about Southern society that didn't include dishonest neighbors and pilferers), and about the Confederate cause were shattered.

Exploring its paths and corners, he takes the role, alternately, of a crime scene investigator, an archeologist, and a pilferer, harvesting specimens of indigenous flora, such as such as pomegranate, citrus, olive and laurel — symbols of honor and fertility since Greek antiquity — but also the opportunistic weeds, encroaching on native soil.