What is a prey?

Answer 1

According to Reader's Digest Illustrated Encyclopedic Dictionary

prey n 1.A creature hunted or caught for food; a quarry. 2. One that can be damaged or hurt; a victim; The district fell prey to the developers. 3. The act of preying.
intr. v preyed, preying, preys. 1. To hunt, catch, or eat as prey. 2. To victimize someone or make a profit at someone's expense. 3. Plunder or pillage. 4. To exert a frave or harmful effect: Remorse preyed upon his mind.

Answer 2

What Is A Prey

Answer 3

A predator is an animal or other organism that hunts and kills other organisms, called prey, for food in an act called predation.

Predators are either carnivores or omnivores. Parasites may also consume other animals in part. Unlike in predators, for whom killing prey is necessary in order to consume it, it is usually undesirable for a parasite to kill its host, on or in which it lives.

Herbivores also consume other species, generally only in part, leaving the organism alive. However, where the prey consists of single-celled algae, the activities of the herbivorous grazer is generally of the same nature as that of a carnivore. As often in ecology there is seldom consensus on the distinctions; some ecologists prefer functional definitions like the one outlined above, others rather look at the ecological dynamics the relationships between the species create. The Lotka-Volterra equations describe a simple mathematical model of the interaction between predators and their prey.

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Answer 4

–noun 1. an animal hunted or seized for food, esp. by a carnivorous animal.
2. a person or thing that is the victim of an enemy, a swindler, a disease, etc.; gull.
3. the action or habit of preying: a beast of prey.
4. Archaic. booty or plunder.
–verb (used without object) 5. to seize and devour prey, as an animal does (usually fol. by on or upon): Foxes prey on rabbits.
6. to make raids or attacks for booty or plunder: The Vikings preyed on coastal settlements.
7. to exert a harmful or destructive influence: His worries preyed upon his mind.
8. to victimize another or others (usually fol. by on or upon): loan sharks that prey upon the poor.

Answer 5

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What is a prey?

Answer 6

prey is what a predator goes after

Answer 7

well, in the ecosystem, prey is another animals dinner. for example, a cats prey might be fish or rodents. the predator is the hunter.

Answer 8

It is something (not necessarily an animal) that is hunted by a predator. Example: a squirrel being hunted by a fox

Answer 9

an animal that will get eaten by a predator. for food.

Answer 10

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