Question

Explain how predation and scavenging are different from each other?

Answer 1

Both predation and scavenging are a kind of direct food related interspecific interactions. But in predation, one organism called predator, captures and feeds on the other, the prey. The predator is a free-living organism which catches and kills another species for food. However, in scavenging, one organism, called scavenger, eats the dead bodies of other animals which have died naturally or are killed by some other animals.