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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.


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The songs lasted about 30 minutes, and they differed from the duets that gibbons perform when no predator is present.
Clarke elicited predator songs by placing realistic models of threatening animals in trees where an entire group of gibbons could see them.
Ironically, his research surrounding the attacks of alligators, sharks and panthers has led him to question whether perhaps man is the greatest predator of all.
 
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