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Keywords: Prey, Hunt, Carnivore, Owl, Feed
An animal that naturally preys on other animals for food.
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An animal that consumes other animals to satisfy its nutritive requirements.
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One being which plunders, robs or pillages another.
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An organism that captures and feeds on other organisms.
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animals who live by hunting and preying on other animals for their own food supply.
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An animal that preys externally on others. A predator usually destroys several hosts; an animal parasite usually lives in or on a single host. ( BCFT . modif).
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An animal that would kill and eat another.
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any animal (including insects and mites) that kills other animals (prey) and feeds on them.
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an animal that preys on others as a food source
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An organism which kills and consumes another (its prey); a number of mostly small predator insects can provide significant natural control of several pests.
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an animal that lives by preying on (eating) other animals (A Screech Owl is a predator.)
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An organism that consumes other organisms, divisible into true predators, grazers, parasites and parasitoids.
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One being which plunders, robbs or pillages another.
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An organism that gains its nutrition by eating other organisms - this term is usually only applied to animals. Predators are generally adapted for spotting prey, chasing them or ambushing them, overcoming any resistance and eating the flesh of another animal. This may involve behavioural adaptations (such as hunting behaviour, making traps, hiding and waiting for ambush, group behaviours), as well as physical adaptations (camouflage, sharp teeth and other weapons, toxins, adapted sense of smell and vision).
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An animal which feeds on other living animals.
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An animal that preys on another to survive.
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A free-living insect that attacks and consumes another or several other insects.
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An animal that hunts for food, or otherwise eats another animal.
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an animal that preys on other animals or insects
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Any species that exists by eating, or preying upon, other species. Eagles are predators, but eaglets and eagle eggs can also be prey for other species, including raccoons, crows, horned owls, bobcats and brown bears.
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An animal that lives by killing and eating other creatures.
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an animal which kills other animals for food
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Any animal that primarily obtains its food killing and consuming other animals.
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Forest Stewardship] An animal that preys upon and devours other animals.
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An animal which hunts for food
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an organism that hunts other species for food.
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a beneficial insect that is usually larger than its prey and which kills and devours more than one host during its lifetime.
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a carnivore that feeds on live animals.
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animal that killsand eats oither animals
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any animal that lives by preying on other animals
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a carnivore and usually refers to animals that catch and kill their food
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a creature that preys on others for its food
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an animal or other organism (such as a carnivorous plant ) that hunts and kills other organisms, called prey , for food in an act called predation
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an animal that eats an animal in which people are interested and for which some person has an increaser-objective
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an animal that preys on other organisms for its food
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an animal that survives by eating other animals
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an insect (sometimes mite, spider, etc
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an insect that protects plants against other insects such as spider mites, white flies, and thrips
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an organism that hunts and eats its prey
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a type of carnivore that kills its food
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an animal who gets most of its food by killing and eating other animals
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An animal that preys on other animals - like an anaconda or the, slightly more humble, diving beetle
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An animal that preys upon others.
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An animal or insect that kills other animals or insects for food. S-U
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predator is an animal that feeds upon an other animal.
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An organism that obtains nourishment by killing and consuming other animals.
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An animal that preys on and devours other animals. Spotted owls prey on rodents, and mountain lions prey on deer.
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an organism that feeds upon another.
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a carnivorous animal that feeds by killing other animals.
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animal or plant that catches and eats another
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A meat eater that catches its food (prey) alive.
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animals which prey on other animals for food.
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An animal that takes other animals as prey, usually killing them before eating them.
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an organism that captures and feeds on parts or all of an organism of another species. Lynx are predators of snowshoe hares.
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an animal that actively seeks out other animals as a source of food
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An animal that lives by capturing prey as a means of maintaining life.
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An animal that kills and eats another. The Purple Martin is a predator on the insects its eats and feeds to its young, but it (or its eggs) are in turn, predated by hawks, owls, falcons, raccoons, snakes, crows, jays, magpies, gulls, wrens, English House Sparrows, European Starlings, and even humans.
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An animal that preys upon other animals for food.
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Animal that captures its prey live
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an animal that lives by killing and consuming other animals
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An animal that hunts or kills other animals for food.
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an animal that preys on others. [Also see Top Predator
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an animal that hunts and eats other animals (prey).
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An animal that eats another animal for food.
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An organism that hunts and eats other organisms.
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Organism which hunts and eats other organisms. This includes both carnivores, which eat animals, and herbivores, which eat plants.
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A natural enemy that preys and feeds on other animal organisms, more than one of which are killed during its lifetime.
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A carnivore (flesh-eating animal) that hunts, kills and eats other animals.
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an animal that feeds on another animal.
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