Predation
noun
1.
depredation; plundering.
2.
act of plundering or robbing.
3.
predatory behavior.
4.
a relation between animals in which one organism captures and feeds on others.
noun
1.
a relationship between two species of animal in a community, in which one (the predator) hunts, kills, and eats the other (the prey)
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