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...

Intraguild predation, or IGP, is the killing and sometimes eating of a potential competitor of a different species. This interaction represents a combination...

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...

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...

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...

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...

populations of herbivores exceed historic levels due to reduced hunting or predation pressure. For example, carnivores declined in North America throughout...

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...

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...

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...

Plastivore Pica Methods Predation Ambush predator Apex predator Egg predator Intraguild predator Pursuit predator Aquatic predation Lunge feeder Pivot feeder...

improve their ability to attach to substrates and increase predation success per predation attempt. Adult and nymph Z. renardii are zoophagous generalist...

PMID 12448714. S2CID 20018104. Bauer A, Forchhammer K (May 2021). "Bacterial Predation on Cyanobacteria". Microbial Physiology. 31 (2): 99–108. doi:10.1159/000516427...

(mainly muscle, fat and other soft tissues) as food, whether through predation or scavenging. The technical term for mammals in the order Carnivora is...

the predation level and other factors. Females of matching body sizes tend to produce more numerous but smaller-sized offspring in high-predation conditions...

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...

20, 2012. Retrieved July 10, 2008. "Cougar Predation – Description". Procedures for Evaluating Predation on Livestock and Wildlife. Archived from the...

more vulnerable prey. However, the time necessitated by such selective predation could result in a failure to meet the predator's self-set nutritional...

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...

to south or from south to north. Migration is inherently risky, due to predation and mortality. The Arctic tern holds the long-distance migration record...

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...

coyote's greatest threat, followed by cougars and gray wolves. Despite predation by gray wolves, coyotes sometimes mate with them, and with eastern, or...

Along with parasites and disease, predation is a threat to sheep health and consequently to the profitability of sheep raising. Sheep have very little...

Armadillos (Spanish for 'little armored ones') are New World placental mammals in the order Cingulata. They form part of the superorder Xenarthra, along...

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...

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...

successional development of ecosystems; cooperation, competition, and predation within and between species; and patterns of biodiversity and its effect...

predation by a golden eagle, a heron was able to mortally wound the eagle, although it succumbed to injuries sustained in the fight. When predation on...

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...

sticky tongues of chameleons to the expanding mouths of frogfishes. Ambush predation is widely distributed in the animal kingdom, spanning some members of...