Question

A human eats a deer. Which of these terms applies to the relationship between the human and the deer?

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is predation.

Explanation:

The term predation is related to the interaction that exists between two organisms, more specifically a predator and a prey.

During this act, most of the time the predator kills and eats its prey, where the latter suffers a great waste of energy which generates an advantage over the predator.

The example of a human eating a deer would enter the carnivorous category, where the predator kills its prey and eats it.

There are other main types of predation that include Herbivory in which the predator consumes photosynthetic plants or algae, Parasitism in which a parasitic organism takes all the essential nutrients to survive its victim until it is depleted or even dead; and Mutualism where two organizations work together to benefit from each other.

Humans can be considered to some extent predators, since using different types of weapons and tools they hunt their prey to eat them or just for sport.