predatory behavior
Stalking and striking
Predatory behavior is conduct that exploits or victimizes others for one's own gain.
The term draws on the hunter-prey relationship in nature but applies most often to human contexts: sexual predators who target vulnerable people, predatory lending that traps borrowers in debt, or corporations engaged in predatory pricing to eliminate competition.
The company's predatory behavior drove smaller rivals out of business.
- preyAnimal being hunted
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- huntingPursuing wild game
- ambushSurprise strike from concealment
- bullyingAggressive repeated intimidation
grooming · love bombing · coercive control · brainwashing · pyramid scheme · gaslighting · fraud · Stockholm syndrome · embezzlement · emotional blackmail · power imbalance · opportunism · con artist · bait and switch · wage theft · financial abuse · price gouging · manipulation
- cyberbullyingcyberbullying, online harassment, targeted harassment, doxxing, threats
- harassmentstalking, groping, catcalling, verbal abuse, threats
- myxobacteriafruiting bodies
- aggressionhostility, violence, attack, fight, combativeness
- spidersspiders, huntsman, tarantula, spider silk, spider webs
- cellar spiderscellar spider, cellar spiders, daddy longlegs spider
predatory behaviorgrazing
Feeding on pasture
foraging · herbivory · scavenging · filter feeding · browsing
predatory behavioraltruistic behavior
Actions benefiting others freely
caregiving · benevolence · guardianship · mentorship · stewardship
predatory behaviordefensive behavior
Guarding against perceived attack
herd behavior · fleeing · hiding · flight response · camouflage