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Anything that eats dead things is a scavenger, not a predator.

There are many scavengers that eat dead animals, including vultures and ants.

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Are there animals that are both predator and prey to each other?

a predator can be prey, for example cats eat birds and cayotes eat cats for example a cat eats birds and cayotes eat cats A predator is an animal that hunts its prey, kills it and eats it. Prey is that which predators hunt, kill and eat. A snake eats mice, therefore it is a predator but an eagle eats snakes, therefore the snake is now a prey.


What relationship occurs between prey and another organism?

predator kills and eats prey for its survival. When the predator population increases, the prey population decreases because of too many hunters. When the prey population decreases, the predator population decreases because of the lack of food. Then, the prey population increases because there aren't that many predators and the process repeats itself.


Are sea dragons prey or predator?

They are prey and predator.


How living and non living things depend on each other?

by food and 1 is the prey who is eaten and the predator is the one that eats it


What are some ecological example of a refuge?

(1) In a well-mixed population, the predator quickly finds prey, the prey disappear, and the predator soon follows. (2) By increasing the space between population subunits, the interaction between the predator and prey is prolonged. (3) By slowing the movement of the predator, the interaction between the predator and prey is prolonged. (4) By adding habitat patches that don't support prey, the interaction between the predator and prey is prolonged. (5) By adding barriers to predator dispersal, the interaction between predator and prey is prolonged.

Related Questions

Do predator eat prey or prey eats predators?

A deer predator eats deer.


What is the name of the animal that eats the prey?

A predator eats prey.


Relationship between predator and prey?

predator hunts and eats prey.


What is a relationship between predator and prey?

a predator eats a prey.


Example of predator-prey?

A lion (predator) kills and eats a zebra (prey).


Is a snake a predator or a prey when it eats a frog?

Predator


How are the terms predator and prey related?

A prey is what a predator hunts down to kill and eat. A prey's predator is what eats it. For example: A gazelle is the prey of a leopard (predator).


Define predator prey?

A Predator Prey is what pedators eat. For example: a snake eats a little rat (the snake is the PREDATOR and the rat is the predator or snakes PREY)


What is a counsumer that eats a other counsumers?

a predator eats the prey


Which type of relationship is a robin eats earthworms?

Predator and prey relationship because the prey of the animal is what the predator eats so it's a predator and prey relationship. Info found on science link 7


How can an animal can be both a predator and a prey?

a predator can be prey, for example cats eat birds and cayotes eat cats for example a cat eats birds and cayotes eat cats A predator is an animal that hunts its prey, kills it and eats it. Prey is that which predators hunt, kill and eat. A snake eats mice, therefore it is a predator but an eagle eats snakes, therefore the snake is now a prey.


What do you call the thing that eats the prey?

A predator.