Tigers are solitary animals and each one needs about 10,000 hectares of hunting territory.

There's also a scientific point, as the feast brings experts close to usually solitary animals.

Scientists had always thought of them as dim-witted, solitary animals.

About 7,000 animals took part in the study and, although red squirrels are solitary animals, five adoptions were observed.

Alternatively, it may be a behavioural problem: cats are naturally solitary animals.

He lived in a solitary cell just long enough to lie in and wide enough to sit cross-legged.

Two weeks' solitary confinement was awarded but, because all the solitary cells were full, the would-be escapers were confined to two small rooms.

Corridors are lined with solitary cells.

Cells are often in unseparable chains, but may appear as solitary cells in some species.

The large outer exercise yard was bisected by a central radiating structure running to the rear perimeter wall which contained solitary cells and infirmaries.

Was it really the result of a solitary hunter befriending an injured wolf?

Failure to find its numbers in mass mortality leads to further conjecture that it was a solitary hunter.

Tigers are solitary hunters and once they no longer perform at the highest level it's game over.

They are mostly solitary hunters, but in the evening a few of them sometimes gather to roost near each other on a dry patch in the marshes or on grassland.

By nature, they are solitary hunters, so anyone who gets in their way can be in for it.

I am a very solitary individual who rarely seeks the company of others.

These poems all begin with a solitary individual and end with a society.

The bluefin trevally hunts both as a solitary individual and in groups of up to 20, with most fish preferring an individual approach.

The solitary individual, however, could do but little.

We tend to see solitary individuals who may have memory problems of one sort or another.

He leaves her for a time and goes for a long, solitary walk.

The large landscape photographs, with texts, record points on his solitary walks.

I will also miss the sound of the waterfall down by the studio and my solitary walks round the ponds on misty autumnal mornings before the world wakes.

He was uninterested in helping with farm work, but loved to go for long, solitary walks - and to read.

She describes to me solitary walks, a preference for her own company and being bored.