Grazing

Grazing is the regular consumption of part of one organism without killing it by another organism. Grazing differs from predation because the organism being eaten is not killed and differs from the feeding of parasites by the fact that the two organisms do not stay together very long nor is the grazer so limited in what it can eat.

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The most commonly understood example of grazing is mammals feeding on grasslands although it can also refer to any plants, algae or plankton being eaten by reptiles, insects, birds etc.

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Many smaller, selective herbivores follow grazers because they skim off the highest, tough growth of plants exposing tender shoots.

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Organism: In biology and ecology, an organism (in Greek organon = instrument) is an assembly of organs that influence each other in such a way that they function as a more or less stable whole and have properties of life....

Predation: Predation is an interaction between organisms (animals) in which one organism captures and feeds upon another called the prey. Although predation most often refers to carnivory, in ecology it can also include many other types of feeding behaviors including parasitism, parasitoidism, and herbivory....

Parasites: REDIRECT Parasitism...

Grazing related Images and Photos (experimental)

Grazing Cattle	Cattle Grazing	Autumn Grazing	Buffalo Grazing Buffalo Gap Nat Grassland SD
Cows Grazing at Liver As North Jutland	Sheep Grazing Under Apple Blossoms	Longhorn Grazing on Bluebonnets Midlothian Texas	Gazelle Grazing Under Acacia Tree at Sunset Maasai Mara Kenya
Horse and Foal Grazing	Sheep and its Two Young Ones Grazing in a Field Iceland	Snow Falls on an Outfitter Grazing His Tacked Horse	Side Profile of a Fallow Deer Grazing in a Forest Banff National Park Alberta Canada