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Biological interaction
Predation is a biological interaction in which one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common
Predation
Hunting strategy by some predators
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
Pursuit_predation
Feeding mainly on seeds
Look up granivore in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Seed predation, often also called granivory, is a type of plant-animal interaction in which animals
Seed_predation
Killing and sometimes eating of potential competitors
Intraguild predation, or IGP, is the killing and sometimes eating of a potential competitor of a different species. This interaction represents a combination
Intraguild_predation
Feeding strategy for many animals
Egg predation or ovivory is a carnivorous feeding strategy in many groups of animals (ovivores) in which they consume eggs. Since a fertilized egg represents
Egg_predation
Domain of microorganisms
1023/A:1020546130033. PMID 12448714. Bauer A, Forchhammer K (May 2021). "Bacterial Predation on Cyanobacteria". Microbial Physiology. 31 (2): 99–108. doi:10.1159/000516427
Bacteria
Interspecies animal behavior
Cat predation on wildlife is the result of the natural instincts and behavior of feral and owned house cats to hunt small prey, including wildlife. Some
Cat_predation_on_wildlife
Consideration of predation as a moral problem
The predation problem or predation argument concerns whether the harms experienced by animals through predation should be treated as a moral problem,
Predation_problem
Form of child abuse
Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a form of child abuse defined as any act that involves a child in, or exposes a child to, any type of sexual activity that
Child_sexual_abuse
Biology term
The term predation rate refers to the frequency with which an organism captures and consumes its prey in an ecosystem. Coupled with the kill rate, the
Predation_rates
Significance of the peppered moth in evolutionary biology
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
Peppered_moth_evolution
Person obtaining sexual contact with another person
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
Sexual_predator
Type of interaction between species
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
Parasitism
Species of tropical fish
preferred in high-predation regions, but not in low-predation regions. When guppies with a high tendency to shoal were isolated from high-predation regions and
Guppy
Along with parasites and disease, predation is a threat to sheep health and therefore to the profitability of sheep farming. Sheep have very little ability
Domestic_sheep_predation
Organism that eats mostly or exclusively animal tissue
(mainly muscle, fat and other soft tissues) as food, whether through predation or scavenging. The technical term for mammals in the order Carnivora is
Carnivore
The predation risk allocation hypothesis attempts to explain how and why animals' behaviour and foraging strategies differ in various predatory situations
Predation risk allocation hypothesis
Predation_risk_allocation_hypothesis
Type of predatory animal
A pack hunter or social predator is a predatory animal which hunts its prey by working together with other members of its species. When hunting cooperation
Pack_hunter
Autonomous feeding of animals
Plastivore Pica Methods Predation Ambush predator Apex predator Egg predator Intraguild predator Pursuit predator Aquatic predation Lunge feeder Pivot feeder
Aquatic_feeding_mechanisms
Defensive feature of prey for selective advantage
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
Anti-predator_adaptation
Species of bird
is generally due to collision with objects (buildings, cars, etc.) and predation, to eggs, nestlings and adults. In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin
Rose-breasted_grosbeak
Eye-like marking used for mimicry or distraction
Notch signaling pathway. Artificial eyespots have been shown to reduce predation of cattle by lions.[citation needed] The eye-like markings in some butterflies
Eyespot_(mimicry)
Predator that hunts by surprise, as opposed to those that chase
sticky tongues of chameleons to the expanding mouths of frogfishes. Ambush predation is widely distributed in the animal kingdom, spanning some members of
Ambush_predator
Reproductive structure in flowering plants
530F. doi:10.1111/jse.12916. Forget, Pierre-Michel (2005). Seed fate: predation, dispersal, and seedling establishment. CABI Pub. ISBN 0-85199-806-2.
Flower
Bird of prey species of North America
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
Bald_eagle
Type of herbivory
populations of herbivores exceed historic levels due to reduced hunting or predation pressure. For example, carnivores declined in North America throughout
Browsing_(herbivory)
Eating members of one's own species
more vulnerable prey. However, the time necessitated by such selective predation could result in a failure to meet the predator's self-set nutritional
Cannibalism
Hunting until the prey animal can no longer flee
as endurance hunting or long-distance hunting, is a variant of pursuit predation in which a predator will bring down a prey item via indirect means, such
Persistence_hunting
Animals with more than 70% meat in their diets
animal that has a diet that is more than 70% meat, either via active predation or by scavenging. The remaining non-meat diet may consist of non-animal
Hypercarnivore
Behavior characterized by activity during the day and sleeping during the night
as the temperature, the ability to gather food by sight, the risk of predation, and the time of year. Diurnality is a cycle of activity within a 24-hour
Diurnality
Organism that eats mostly or exclusively plant material
increase survival and/or reproduction (fitness) of plants under pressure of predation from herbivores. Defense can be divided into two main categories, tolerance
Herbivore
Class of animals with milk-producing glands
a significantly slower pace than ruminants, who face greater natural predation hazards. Many desert animals do not drink even if water becomes available
Mammal
Plants that consume animals
Plastivore Pica Methods Predation Ambush predator Apex predator Egg predator Intraguild predator Pursuit predator Aquatic predation Lunge feeder Pivot feeder
Carnivorous_plant
Species of bird from Guam
breeding program following its extinction in the wild due primarily to predation by the introduced brown tree snake. In the indigenous Chamorro language
Guam_kingfisher
Family of gastropods
prey on the soldier crab Mictyris longicarpus (Crustacea) by drilling predation. To catch soldier crabs, C. sordidum uses the same behaviour as when hunting
Naticidae
Animal that feeds on carrion, dead plants, or refuse
carrion, the bodies of animals that have died from causes other than predation or the bodies of animals that have been killed by other predators. However
Scavenger
Organism which eats insects
Plastivore Pica Methods Predation Ambush predator Apex predator Egg predator Intraguild predator Pursuit predator Aquatic predation Lunge feeder Pivot feeder
Insectivore
Wild cat species native to the Americas
deprecated archival service (link) "Cougar Predation – Description". Procedures for Evaluating Predation on Livestock and Wildlife. Archived from the
Cougar
Species of bird
vulnerable to attacks and predation by large snakes and other natural predators. In manipulated groups of smaller size, around 6, predation was less likely to
Guianan_cock-of-the-rock
Species of starfish
skin of humans. Saponins have an unpleasant taste. A study to test the predation rate on juvenile Acanthaster spp. by appropriate fish species found that
Crown-of-thorns_starfish
Feeding livestock on forage
Plastivore Pica Methods Predation Ambush predator Apex predator Egg predator Intraguild predator Pursuit predator Aquatic predation Lunge feeder Pivot feeder
Grazing
Species of true bug
improve their ability to attach to substrates and increase predation success per predation attempt. Adult and nymph Z. renardii are zoophagous generalist
Zelus_renardii
Associated populations of species in a given area
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
Community_(ecology)
Symbiotic phenomenon
biological interaction where an organism that is typically prey in the predation interaction instead acts as the predator. A variety of interactions are
Predator–prey_reversal
Evolutionary arms race
(MMR) refers to the increase in shell-crushing (durophagous) and boring predation in shallow-sea (neritic) and some deep-sea marine organisms throughout
Mesozoic_marine_revolution
Species of small, biologically immortal jellyfish
still die. In nature, most Turritopsis dohrnii are likely to succumb to predation or disease in the medusa stage without reverting to the polyp form. The
Turritopsis_dohrnii
Animal that feeds on decomposing plant and animal parts as well as faeces
behaviours Carnivores adult Arachnophagy Avivore Corallivore Durophagy Egg predation Entomophagy Hematophagy Insectivore Lepidophagy Man-eating animal Molluscivore
Detritivore
Soviet secret police chief (1899–1953)
Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (29 March [O.S. 17 March] 1899 – 23 December 1953) was a Soviet politician and one of the longest-serving and most influential
Lavrentiy_Beria
Place where an organism is protected from predation
is a concept in ecology, in which an organism obtains protection from predation by hiding in an area where it is inaccessible or cannot easily be found
Refuge_(ecology)
Species of canine native to North America
and experienced coyotes can successfully prey on porcupines, with many predation attempts by young coyotes resulting in them being injured by their prey's
Coyote
Lady Michelle Obama live in Manchester, New Hampshire | Hillary Clinton (28:27) on YouTube—speech about Trump, sexual predation, and women's experiences
Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations
Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct_allegations
Bony fish with a natural lure
order's common and scientific name comes from the characteristic mode of predation, in which a modified dorsal fin ray acts as a lure for prey (akin to a
Anglerfish
Effect that organisms have on other organisms
interaction is important.[citation needed] Short-term interactions, including predation and pollination, are extremely important in ecology and evolution. These
Biological_interaction
Creature that preys on humans
except for the dog which poses lethal hazards for reasons other than predation. In the rare cases in which man-eating wolf attacks occur, the majority
Man-eating_animal
Topics referred to by the same term
Look up predator or predation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A predator is an organism (usually an animal) that kills other organism (usually another
Predator_(disambiguation)
Study of organisms and their environment
successional development of ecosystems; cooperation, competition, and predation within and between species; and patterns of biodiversity and its effect
Ecology
Largest species of rodents
wild capybaras usually do not live longer than four years because of predation from South American cats such as jaguars, ocelots and cougars and from
Capybara
Consumption of a mother by her offspring
during colder temperatures. This is mainly for the purpose of avoiding predation and maximizing their offspring's survival, since females are unable to
Matriphagy
Person who commits child sexual abuse via the Internet
sites, cell phones, and even video game consoles have issues with online predations. These online areas attract predators because they allow them to have
Online_predator
Species of bird
presumably predate on the grosbeak. However, no data currently exists about predation's effects on the population; further research is needed to assess whether
São_Tomé_grosbeak
Extinct species of hominin of South Africa
indicated by higher male mortality rates and assumed increased risk of predation to solitary individuals. P. robustus contended with sabertooth cats, leopards
Paranthropus_robustus
Hunting method and dog sport
rules, the Laws of the Leash. As a zoological term, coursing refers to predation by the running down of prey over long distances, as opposed to stalking
Coursing
and small or young dogs (Canis familiaris) have been preyed on as well. Predation on felid is uncommon though eagle-owls are known to prey on domestic cats
Dietary biology of the Eurasian eagle-owl
Dietary_biology_of_the_Eurasian_eagle-owl
Parasite of another parasite
agriculture and medicine. Hyperparasitism is to an extent analogous to predation on herbivores, which in turn eat plants, as there are three trophic levels
Hyperparasite
Aspect of natural behavior
theory states that individuals within a population attempt to reduce their predation risk by putting other conspecifics between themselves and predators. A
Selfish_herd_theory
Largest species of toothed whale
Pitman RL, Ballance LT, Mesnick SI, Chivers SJ (2001). "Killer whale predation on sperm whales: Observations and implications". Marine Mammal Science
Sperm_whale
Species of bird
is susceptible to external and internal parasites and is vulnerable to predation by cats and birds of prey. The song thrush was described by German ornithologist
Song_thrush
Species of mammal
The Cape bushbuck (Tragelaphus sylvaticus), also known as imbabala and southern bushbuck, is a common, medium-sized bushland-dwelling, and a widespread
Cape_bushbuck
Hypothetical life with reversed molecular chirality
bacteria could allow them to evade many mechanisms critical for immunity and predation that have evolved to recognize natural-chirality structures. As a result
Mirror-image_life
Change in the heritable traits of populations
antlers, mating calls, large body size and bright colours often attract predation, which compromises the survival of individual males. This survival disadvantage
Evolution
Tendency for deep-sea species to be larger than their shallower-water relatives
include necessary adaptation to colder temperature, food scarcity, reduced predation pressure and increased dissolved oxygen concentrations in the deep sea
Deep-sea_gigantism
Species of rodent
The European water vole (Arvicola amphibius) or northern water vole is a semi-aquatic rodent. It is often informally called the water rat, though it only
European_water_vole
Species of zebra
The loss of open grasslands due to woody plant encroachment increases predation risk and therewith habitat. Plains zebra are listed as near threatened
Plains_zebra
Order of amphibians
tend to have greater and more complex parental care behaviour. Because predation of eggs and larvae is high in large water bodies, some frog species started
Frog
Largest living species of dolphin
which have been recorded to mob and chase them. Nevertheless, possible predation on long-finned pilot whales has been recorded in Iceland, and one study
Orca
Subspecies of moth (gypsy moth)
population dynamics of the moth. On the other hand, avian predation and invertebrate predation show only small effects on population dynamics. The white-footed
Lymantria_dispar_dispar
Organism which consumes bacteria
and arthropods. Many bacterivorous organisms are adapted for generalist predation on any species of bacteria, but not all bacteria are easily digested;
Bacterivore
Species of bird
is the smallest nocturnal bird found in Australia, making it prone to predation. It is colloquially known as the moth owl or fairy owl and Jarlajirrpi
Australian_owlet-nightjar
Animal that can eat and survive on both plants and animals
Plastivore Pica Methods Predation Ambush predator Apex predator Egg predator Intraguild predator Pursuit predator Aquatic predation Lunge feeder Pivot feeder
Omnivore
2019 documentary film by Dan Reed
Jackson's companies had no duty to keep Safechuck safe from Jackson's alleged predation. On April 26, 2021, Robson's case was dismissed because of a lack of supporting
Leaving_Neverland
Species of carnivore
trickster figure. Despite ongoing conflict with humans due to livestock predation, its populations remain stable thanks to its resilience and adaptability
Black-backed_jackal
Animal that feeds on carrion
also have excellent auditory perception, enabling them to hear distant predation-related noises and the distress calls of dying animals. In addition, gliding
Necrophage
Species of canine
North America. However, deliberate human persecution because of livestock predation and fear of attacks on humans has reduced the wolf's range to about one-third
Wolf
Species of ground shark
well as rays, and sometimes even other tiger sharks. Due to high risk of predation, dolphins often avoid regions inhabited by tiger sharks. Injured or ailing
Tiger_shark
Type of social group in some animals
usually called packs, and in nature a herd is classically subject to predation from pack hunters. Special collective nouns may be used for particular
Herd
Parasitic creature
capable of altering the behavior of the intermediate host to make such predation more likely; a mechanism that has been called parasite increased trophic
Behavior-altering_parasite
Natural collagen casing found encompassing some aquatic lifeforms' fertilized eggs
environments. Predation on egg cases is thought to be a major source of mortality for developing oviparous sharks, skates and chimaeras. In general, predation is
Egg_case_(Chondrichthyes)
Species of praying mantis
female mantis implements ambush predation to allow it to hunt larger pollinating insects. An example of this ambush predation is the orchid mantis's ability
Hymenopus_coronatus
Species of Old World monkey
baboons as their main prey, comprising 44% of 118 kills. Less routine predation on chacma baboons has been reportedly committed by lions, spotted hyena
Chacma_baboon
Species of cephalopod
species is able to make powerful contractions of its mantle to escape predation (jet propulsion). The diamond squid was found to be largely inactive or
Thysanoteuthis_rhombus
Monospecific genus of predatory algae
from many algae after prolonged coexistence (from both kleptoplasty and predation). This targeting system could have been involved in the establishment
Rapaza
Biological phenomenon
easier for herbivores to escape or hide from predators, the decreased predation pressure on islands can allow them to grow larger. Small herbivores may
Island_gigantism
Species of amphibian
threat to the frogs than predation. As adults, they use their diminutive size and color-changing ability to avoid predation. Males may also conceal their
Squirrel_tree_frog
French breed of dog
particularly in the French Alps and the Pyrenees, protecting flocks from predation by wolves and bears. In the US, it is also used to protect flocks from
Pyrenean_Mountain_Dog
Species of cephalopod
opponent from releasing its ink. Cephalopods are constantly at risk of predation due to their soft bodies, which provide no protection against elements
Wunderpus
Family of birds
aeruginosus complex) or Pallas's fish eagle (Haliaeetus leucoryphus). Predation by Crocodylus crocodiles has also been noted. But many would-be predators
Darter
Aquatic organism that feeds on planktonic food
abundance and community composition of planktonic species through their predation pressure, and planktivore migrations facilitate nutrient transport between
Planktivore
Species of reptile
for at least 360 other animal species. G. polyphemus is threatened by predation and habitat destruction. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species lists
Gopher_tortoise
Soft-bodied, aquatic invertebrates
nutrients, sunshine, temperature, season, prey availability, reduced predation and oxygen concentration. Currents collect jellyfish together, especially
Jellyfish
Species of fish
predictions, they exhibited this behavior in low predation scenarios, forest stream habitats in low predation, and more open stream habitats. They did not
Dermogenys_collettei
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Girl/Female
Assamese, Hindu, Indian, Kannada
Creation; Remembrance
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Sword
Male
English
Pet form of English Reginald, REGGIE means "wise ruler."
Female
English
Feminine form of English Ernest, ERNESTINE means "battle (to the death), serious business."
Boy/Male
Hindu
Perceiver
Girl/Female
British, English, Jamaican
Pale-skinned; Dark; Pale Meadow
Boy/Male
Hindu
Desire
Girl/Female
Tamil
Shanvitha | ஷாநà¯à®µà¯€à®¤à®¾Â
Goddess Lakshmi
Girl/Female
Tamil
Honeybee
Girl/Female
Latin
Prosper.
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n.
The act of pillaging.