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A juvenile
Red-tailed Hawk
eating a
California Vole
. This act, called
predation
, is a
biological interaction
where a
predator
species kills and eats others, known as
prey
. Predators are either
carnivores
or
omnivores
.
Herbivores
are usually treated separately, but from an
ecological
perspective, the activities of the herbivorous species that kill the organism they feed on is functionally the same as predation.
Photo credit:
Steve Jurvetson
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