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✓ Interspecific interaction in which one animal called predator, kills and consumes the other weaker animal called prey ✓ In a broad ecological context, all carnivores, herbivores etc. are predators ✓ About 25 % insects are phytophagous ✓ If a predator overexploits its prey, then the prey might become extinct. It results in the extinction of predator. Therefore, predators in nature are 'prudent' POPULATION INTERACTIONS ≫ 1.PREDATION