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Other categories of consumption are herbivory (eating parts of plants), fungivory (eating parts of fungi), and detritivory (the consumption of dead organic material (detritus)). All these consumption categories fall under the rubric of consumer-resource systems. | Other categories of consumption are herbivory (eating parts of plants), fungivory (eating parts of fungi), and detritivory (the consumption of dead organic material (detritus)). All these consumption categories fall under the rubric of consumer-resource systems. | ||
== Fiction cross-reference == | == Fiction cross-reference == | ||
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File:Gnotilus-fighting-Heracles.jpg|link=Gnotilus|Black-figure | File:Gnotilus-fighting-Heracles.jpg|link=Gnotilus|[[Black-figure Hydria (nonfiction)|hydria]] showing [[Gnotilus]] predating upon humans.</gallery> | ||
* [[Catch phrase]] - a predatory form of [[Artificial intelligence|artificial intelligence]]. | |||
== Nonfiction cross-reference == | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
Revision as of 06:55, 13 June 2016
In an ecosystem, predation is a biological interaction where a predator (an organism that is hunting) feeds on its prey (the organism that is attacked).
Description
Predators may or may not kill their prey prior to feeding on them, but the act of predation often results in the death of the prey and the eventual absorption of the prey's tissue through consumption.
Thus predation is often, though not always, carnivory.
Other categories of consumption are herbivory (eating parts of plants), fungivory (eating parts of fungi), and detritivory (the consumption of dead organic material (detritus)). All these consumption categories fall under the rubric of consumer-resource systems.
Fiction cross-reference
- Catch phrase - a predatory form of artificial intelligence.
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links
- Predation @ Wikipedia