1) Act of plundering or robbing 2) Biological pest control 3) Depredation 4) Pillage 5) Pillaging 6) Plundering 7) Predatory behavior
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1) Depredation
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In ecology, predation is a biological interaction where a predator (an organism that is hunting) feeds on its prey (the organism that is attacked). Predators may or may not kill their prey prior to feeding on them, but the act of predation often results in the death of its prey and the eventual absorption of the prey`s tissue through consumption.....
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• (n.) The act of pillaging.
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in animal behaviour, the pursuit, capture, and killing of animals for food. Predatory animals may be solitary hunters, like the leopard, or they may ... [42 related articles]
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The act of an animal capturing and eating other animals.
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<zoology> A type of organism interaction where one species feeds on another species (or rarely, on a member of the same species). ... In general, the predator species that does the feeding benefits from this relationship, while the prey species which gets eaten is harmed by the relationship. ... (31 Dec 1997) ...
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describes the interaction between a predator and its prey, for example a lion (the predator) attacking and killing a zebra (the lion`s prey).
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The act of an animal capturing and eating other animals.
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Hunting and killing another animal for food.
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Occurs when any organism kills an other organism for food (e.g., a red fox kills a hen or eats some duck eggs)
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Animal interaction in which the predator kills the prey outright; it does not subsist on the prey while it is alive.
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Pre·da'tion noun [ Latin
praedatio , from
praedari to plunder.] The act of pillaging.
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hunting and killing another animal for food
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Biological interaction between species where a predator species consumes a prey species.
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The act of killing and eating livestock by a carnivorous animal.
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Hunting and killing another animal for food.
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The act of an animal capturing and eating other animals.
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The act of preying or feeding on another living organism.
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the act of being a predator
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A trophic interaction in which individuals of one species (the predator) kills and eats individuals of the other species (the prey).
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noun the act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey
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the act of preying upon.
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depredation; plundering. · act of plundering or robbing. · predatory behavior. · a relation between animals in which one organism captures and feeds on others.
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A type of species interaction where one organism, aka the predator, consumes, in part or in whole, another organism, aka the prey. Examples of predators include snakes and members of the big cat family, such as lynx. The difference between parasitism and predation is not always clear, but in general, predators kill their prey almost immediately whi...
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