Talk:Predation

message: The definition seems to make a requirement that is not fulfilled by many predators.  The death of the prey often occurs after it is eaten, for example in seed predation, ovivory, many cases in which the predator is bigger by a large factor than the prey (whales and krill, at an extreme) or lacks the physical equipment to kill other than in the act of consumption(eg spiders).  This aspect of the definition needs re-examining.  Kevin McE (talk) 12:00, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eating living matter 

message: Solitary Versus Social Predation - A claim is made that out of the 245 terrestrial carnivores, 177 of them are solitary. This statement is false at worst and misleading at best. When I checked the source for the claim, it appears the source was referring specifically to terrestrial members of Carnivora which should be referred to as carnivorans. There are approximately 270 members of order Carnivora, most of which are predatory and terrestrial. While I was not able to find out how many terrestrial carnivores there actually are, I know this statement is incorrect when you account for the fact that there are many more terrestrial carnivores that are not even part of order Carnivora. There are carnivorous mammals that are not included, carnivorous reptiles, and many carnivorous invertebrates which are terrestrial. I would recommend modifying the statement or removing it altogether.
I hope this is a helpful contribution I have made. --MarsAtlantica (talk) 19:07, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Somebody must have copy-edited Carnivora to carnivores. I've put it back. Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:23, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Solitary Versus Social Predation 

message: The chart in the Definition section (shown here) seems wrong somehow.
Why wouldn't the herbivory and scavenging areas overlap?
Sea snails and crabs would be examples of creatures that feed on algae as well as other dead creatures.
 Did you create this image? ~Anachronist (talk) 03:18, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Sure, ok, I can make them overlap. It's peripheral, as it doesn't concern predation, but whatever. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:46, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problem with chart in Definition section 

message: , as the original GAN nominator. 1a of WP:GA? says that GA articles should comply with the manual of style for lede sections. However, it looks like the lede of this article has disappeared since it was promoted in 2018. Would you or someone else knowledgable in this subject be able to write a new lede for this article? If not, I will send this to be reassessed at WP:GAR. Thanks. Z1720 (talk) 18:23, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:  Everything's fine. A IP vandal on 19 June accidentally commented-out the lead and the first few sections of the article, replacing ... --> with ... Kristen -> so the comment failed to close. The entire text of the lead and the invisible sections was still in the article. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:00, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Missing lede?

message: Took this dramatic image recently of a great blue heron eating a brown water snake. Thought it might belong in this article, but I see there are already a lot of images already. Dropping it here to defer to others. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 13:40, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  It's a fine image. We do as you say have enough here already, especially of vertebrates. It would be nice to make a well-organised page of predation images over on Commons, if you felt like doing that? Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:45, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image