Predation vs. Parasitism

Predationnoun

(zoology) The preying of one animal on others.

Predationnoun

(obsolete) The action of attacking or plundering.

Predationnoun

The act of pillaging.

Predationnoun

an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding

Predationnoun

the act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey

Predation

Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common feeding behaviours that includes parasitism and micropredation (which usually do not kill the host) and parasitoidism (which always does, eventually).

Parasitismnoun

(ecology) Interaction between two organisms, in which one organism (the parasite) benefits and the other (the host) is harmed.

Parasitismnoun

(figuratively) A similar interaction between people.

Parasitismnoun

The state or behavior of a parasite; the act of a parasite.

Parasitismnoun

The state of being parasitic.

Parasitismnoun

the relation between two different kinds of organisms in which one receives benefits from the other by causing damage to it (usually not fatal damage)

Parasitism

Parasitism is a symbiotic relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson has characterised parasites as .