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Nature's oldest business model: you're either eating or on the menu.
means The act of one organism hunting, killing, and feeding on another — the biological transaction of predator and prey.
from From Latin praedatio, 'plundering' or 'pillaging,' from praedari, 'to rob or plunder,' itself rooted in praeda, 'booty' or 'prey' (the same root that gives us 'predator' and 'prey'). The word started in the human world of raiders and spoils of war before biology borrowed it wholesale to describe lions and sparrows doing the same ancient math.
- drives evolution
- prey get faster, predators get sneakier, forever
- not villainy
- predators just recycle calories, no malice included
- keystone effect
- remove wolves, watch entire ecosystems quietly collapse
- humans included
- we out-predated almost everything, then invented agriculture