Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common feeding...
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predation is a form of predation in which predators actively give chase to their prey, either solitarily or as a group. It is an alternate predation strategy...
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Look up granivore in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Seed predation, often referred to as granivory, is a type of plant-animal interaction in which granivores...
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Intraguild predation, or IGP, is the killing and sometimes eating of a potential competitor of a different species. This interaction represents a combination...
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Egg predation or ovivory is a feeding strategy in many groups of animals (ovivores) in which they consume eggs. Since a fertilized egg represents a complete...
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The predation problem or predation argument refers to the consideration of the harms experienced by animals due to predation as a moral problem, that humans...
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Browsing (herbivory) (redirect from Browsing (predation))
populations of herbivores exceed historic levels due to reduced hunting or predation pressure. For example, carnivores declined in North America throughout...
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Cat predation on wildlife is the result of the natural instincts and behavior of both feral and owned house cats to hunt small prey, including wildlife...
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(mainly muscle, fat and other soft tissues) as food, whether through predation or scavenging. The technical term for mammals in the order Carnivora is...
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Peppered moth evolution (redirect from Peppered moth predation experiments)
emissions, and the trees became darkened. This led to an increase in bird predation for light-coloured moths, as they no longer blended in as well in their...
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Child sexual abuse (redirect from Child predation)
Child sexual abuse (CSA), also called child molestation, is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation...
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Sexual predator (redirect from Sexual predation)
A sexual predator is a person seen as obtaining or trying to obtain sexual contact with another person in a metaphorically "predatory" or abusive manner...
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Bacteria (redirect from Bacterial predation)
PMID 12448714. S2CID 20018104. Bauer A, Forchhammer K (May 2021). "Bacterial Predation on Cyanobacteria". Microbial Physiology. 31 (2): 99–108. doi:10.1159/000516427...
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Aquatic feeding mechanisms (redirect from Under water predation)
Plastivore Pica Methods Predation Ambush predator Apex predator Egg predator Intraguild predator Pursuit predator Aquatic predation Lunge feeder Pivot feeder...
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more vulnerable prey. However, the time necessitated by such selective predation could result in a failure to meet the predator's self-set nutritional...
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host's body; an ectoparasite lives outside, on the host's surface. Like predation, parasitism is a type of consumer–resource interaction, but unlike predators...
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Cougar (section Predation on domestic animals)
20, 2012. Retrieved July 10, 2008. "Cougar Predation – Description". Procedures for Evaluating Predation on Livestock and Wildlife. Archived from the...
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Zelus renardii (section Adaptations for predation)
improve their ability to attach to substrates and increase predation success per predation attempt. Adult and nymph Z. renardii are zoophagous generalist...
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Along with parasites and disease, predation is a threat to sheep health and consequently to the profitability of sheep raising. Sheep have very little...
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The predation risk allocation hypothesis attempts to explain how and why animals' behaviour and foraging strategies differ in various predatory situations...
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Coyote (section Livestock and pet predation)
coyote's greatest threat, followed by cougars and gray wolves. Despite predation by gray wolves, coyotes sometimes mate with them, and with eastern, or...
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birds were innocent of most of these alleged acts of predation (lamb predation is rare, human predation is thought to be non-existent). Illegal shooting was...
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Deep-sea gigantism (section Reduced predation pressure)
include necessary adaptation to colder temperature, food scarcity, reduced predation pressure and increased dissolved oxygen concentrations in the deep sea...
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Online predator (redirect from Internet predation)
sites, cell phones, and even video game consoles have issues with online predations. These online areas attract predators because they allow them to have...
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Armadillo (section Diet and predation)
Armadillos (Spanish for 'little armored ones') are New World placental mammals in the order Cingulata. They form part of the superorder Xenarthra, along...
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Community (ecology) (section Predation)
plant at all. Predation may affect the population size of predators and prey and the number of species coexisting in a community. Predation can be specialist...
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Anti-predator adaptation (redirect from Anti-predation)
spines, and by living in a group. Members of groups are at reduced risk of predation, despite the increased conspicuousness of a group, through improved vigilance...
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successional development of ecosystems; cooperation, competition, and predation within and between species; and patterns of biodiversity and its effect...
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Tapir (section Habitat, predation, and vulnerability)
Tapirs (/ˈteɪpər/ TAY-pər) are large, herbivorous mammals belonging to the family Tapiridae. They are similar in shape to a pig, with a short, prehensile...
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