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predation

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predation

Form of food getting in which one animal, the predator, eats an animal of another species, the prey, immediately after killing it or, in some cases, while it is still alive. Most predators are generalists; they eat a variety of prey species. Specialist predators, such as anteaters, eat only one or a few prey species. Cannibalism is a type of predation in which an animal eats another of its own species. Seed consumption is also considered predation because the entire living embryo of a plant is destroyed.

predation [prə′dā·shən]
(biology)
The killing and eating of an individual of one species by an individual of another species.
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The protection is needed as little terns, as ground nesting birds, are vulnerable to disturbance by people as well as predation from the likes of fox, black headed gulls and hedgehogs.
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