Predation
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| + | # Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder. | ||
| + | # That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim. | ||
| + | # A living thing that is eaten by another living thing. | ||
| + | #: ''The rabbit was eaten by the coyote, so the rabbit is the coyote's '''prey'''.'' | ||
| - | '''Food chains''' and food webs are representations of the [[prey|predator-prey]] relationships between species within an [[ecosystem]] or [[habitat]]. | ||
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| - | Many chain and web models can be applicable depending on habitat or [[environment]]al factors. Every known food chain has a base made of [[autotroph]]s, organisms able to manufacture their own food (e.g. [[plant]]s, [[chemotroph]]s). | ||
| - | == See also == | ||
| - | * [[Natural environment]] | ||
| - | * [[Pecking order]] | ||
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- Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder.
- That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim.
- A living thing that is eaten by another living thing.
- The rabbit was eaten by the coyote, so the rabbit is the coyote's prey.
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