Biology / Unit 14 Bio 3593 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Predation and Herbivory
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The idea
Predation is an interaction where a predator kills and consumes another organism, the prey, while herbivory is the analogous interaction where an animal consumes plant tissue.
In practice
A wolf killing a deer is predation; a caterpillar eating leaf tissue without killing the plant is herbivory.
Where people slip
Herbivory usually does not kill the plant, unlike predation's typical outcome for the prey consumed.
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