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When an animal kills another animal, the animal that kills that animal is called the predator, while the eaten is called the prey. Let's use a bird and a worm for example, the bird is the predator because it eats the worm, and the worm is the prey because it gets eaten.

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they are called predators, and the animal they are hunting are called their prey.

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