PREDATION

Predation

Predation

Advantages and Disadvantages of Predation

The advantages of Predation in Eecology are relatively abundant food such as fruit should result in a higher clutch size. The oilbird fits this model in having a clutch size of up to four eggs, compared with insectivorous caprimulgiform birds, which have clutches of one or two eggs. The common advantage of partial frugivory is to attests to selective advantages some of which are obvious but others which are not so obvious. These advantages are best discussed by distinguishing between the nonbreeding period and the breeding period. The growth rates of the young permit rapid fledging and ...