because of the passing of energy from one animal to the other. Producers make 1000 energy from the sun. Then as the next animal eats it, like the grasshopper, the grasshopper gets only 100 energy from the plant it ate, and so one. There is less predators because the more the energy lost, the more that the for say, frogs have to eat more grasshoppers to get the same amount of energy that the grasshopper got from the grass. So larger predators have to try hard to eat more, so there is less because not many animals can eat enough of the other animals because of the loss of energy.
Rabbits are prey animals that are often hunted by predators such as foxes, cats, and birds of prey. They rely on their speed, agility, and camouflage to escape from predators in the wild.
Decline of prey, decline of space, foreign predators that hunt both predators and prey
Yaks have predators, not prey.
The connection between prey and predator is that predators are organisms that eat other organisms, and prey are the organisms that are eaten. For example, lion's are predators and zebra are an example of their prey. This can also refer to plants: rabbits are the predators and lettuce is the prey. Without prey, the predators would have nothing to eat. Without predators, the preyy population would increase to the point of overpopulation.
Usually, parasites are much smaller than the host is, whereas predators could be either small or larger than the prey. Parasites have a very high reproduction rate but the predators reproduce slowly.
In a stable ecosystem (like a rain forest), there will usually be fewer predators/meat eaters than prey/plant eaters, because the higher up you are on the food chain, the fewer of you there will be; If there were fewer prey animals than predators, they would all be eaten quickly, and the predators would starve and the ecosystem would break down. But if there are more prey animals than predators, the prey animals will live long enough to reproduce and keep the population stable, the predators will still have food and the ecosystem will stabilize.
In some environments, the vast majority of the biomass of an ecosystem is in upper level predators! (Coral reefs come to mind)Right, um... The larger predators tend to be more ordered than large numbers of prey. They organize a bunch of little things into one ordered body. As the universe must descend towards disorder, there would typically be more (disorganized) prey than (organized) predators.
Because - eventually, the gradual reduction in the number of prey animals would result in fewer predators. Less predators gives the prey animals time to recover their numbers. Therefore there will always be at least some prey for predators to feed on.
There is no short term effect, the cycle will just go in these four stages. more predators= fewer preys too little food= predators starve few predators= more prey survive food plentiful= more predators survive
Yes. They're a prey animal, which makes them more than inclined to have predators.
They are both predators and prey.
They are both predators and prey.
Other than occasionally eating small insects, monkeys are not predators and have no prey.
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Prey animals are eaten by predators. (Preydators)
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The predator doesn't have to be bigger, but it must be adadpted to kill its larger prey