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Predation and Herbivory

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Predation is an interaction where a predator kills and consumes another organism, the prey, while herbivory is the analogous interaction where an animal consumes plant tissue.

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A wolf killing a deer is predation; a caterpillar eating leaf tissue without killing the plant is herbivory.

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Herbivory usually does not kill the plant, unlike predation's typical outcome for the prey consumed.