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A predator-prey association in which the prey population responds to its losses through increased fecundity (producing offspring) and a higher survival rate of the young.

1. To ransack, to plunder, and to ravage.
2. To engage in plundering.

1. A predatory attack; a raid.
2. Damage or loss; a ravage.

Tending or designed to depredate; characterized by depredation; plundering; as, a depredatory incursion.

1. A reference to plundering or laying waste to something.
2. Descriptive of preying upon; pillaging; ravaging.

A predator that is narrowly restricted to a specific kind of prey.

1. Describes animals that hunt, kill, and eat other animals.
2. Attacking and stealing from other people.
3. Living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain.

1. Living by seizing or taking prey; predatory.
2. Given to victimizing, plundering, or destroying for one's own gain.

1. The killing and eating of an animal of one species by an individual of the same or different species.
2. The interaction between populations in which one organism (the predator) consumes another (the prey).

Typically, the predator catches, kills and eats its prey but predation is also used to describe feeding by insectivorous plants and even grazing by herbivores.

The effect that a predator's consumption has on a prey population.

1. An animal that kills other animals for food.
2. Any organism that kills and consumes other organisms.

In a predatory (plundering, pillaging, or marauding) manner.

1. Greedily eager to steal from or to destroy other people for gain.
2. Relating to or characteristic of animals that survive by preying on other animals.
3. Extremely aggressive, determined, or persistent.

The hunting of birds, mice and small reptiles by cats and the hunting and herding behavior of dogs, often done in a pack.

Wild predators kill mostly for prey, only one victim at a time; while, urban dogs kill many sheep in a flock, much more than they can eat.

1. An animal or animals caught, killed, and eaten by another animal as food; for example, a shrew's prey consists largely of earthworms and wood lice.
2. Someone who is attacked by or who receives cruel or unfair treatment from another person.
3. The natural practice or habit of predatory animals of hunting, killing, and eating other animals.
4. To seize and to devour prey, as an animal does: "Foxes prey on rabbits."
5. To make raids or attacks for booty or plunder.
6. To exert a harmful or destructive influence: "His worries preyed upon his mind."
7. To victimize another person or others: "There are loan sharks that prey upon those who are in great need of money."
8. Etymology: from Latin praedari, "to plunder, to rob"; from praeda, "booty".