Wednesday, December 17, 2008

5. Predators kill for food. They are either secondary or tertiary consumers - eg polar bears, eagles, tigers. Preys are the organisms that predators feed on. Examples of predator and prey species are: fox and rabbit; bird and caterpillar; wolf and lamb.
From the example of Food Web, the snake and mountain lion are predators and the rabbit is the prey.

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