AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Some examples of predator and prey are lion and zebra, bear and fish, and fox and rabbit. The words “predator” and “prey” are almost always used to mean only animals that eat animals, but the same concept also applies to plants: Bear and berry, rabbit and lettuce, grasshopper and leaf.

Detailed explanation-2: -There is a natural (and complicated!) predator-prey relationship between the fox and rabbit populations, since foxes thrive in the presence of rabbits, and rabbits thrive in the absence of foxes.

Detailed explanation-3: -Whether it is a roadrunner swallowing a lizard, a blue crab eating a fish, an American Egret catching a perch, a shark investigating a surface disturbance that could be a meal, or a man rounding up a cow for slaughter, the predator kills to provide food for itself or its family.

Detailed explanation-4: -The best-known examples of predation involve carnivorous interactions, in which one animal consumes another. Think of wolves hunting moose, owls hunting mice, or shrews hunting worms and insects.

Detailed explanation-5: -Explanation for children: A predator-prey relationship describes the relationship between a hunter and his prey. For example, the fox is the predator and the rabbit the prey. The foxes hunt and eat the rabbits, so there are fewer rabbits.