can eat other smaller animals, even if they hunt in a group the animals could even get preys that are bigger than them

Community climax: It is a mature and stable state of an ecological community that has achieved relative equilibrium with its environment and does not experience significant changes unless major disturbances occur.

Capture, mark and release: is a research technique in which animals are caught in their natural environment, marked or tagged for identification, and then released again.

Detritivore: It is an organism that feeds on dividing organic matter, such as dead leaves, rotten wood and other organic remains.

Carnivore: It is an organism that feeds mainly on meat and other animals as its main food source.

Herbivore: is an organism that feeds mainly on plants and plant matter as its main food source.

Omnivore: It is an organism that feeds on a variety of foods, including both plant and animal matter, adapting to a diverse diet.

Scavenger: it is an animal that feeds on dead animals or remains of other organisms, playing an important role in the separation and elimination of organic matter from an ecosystem.

Sampling: is a research and data collection technique that consists of selecting a representative part of a larger population to obtain information about the total.

Competition: It is an interaction between organisms in which they fight for the same resources, such as food, water, shelter or partners to reproduce.

Camouflage: it is an adaptation in which an organism resembles its environment to go unnoticed and protect itself from predators or stalk its prey.

Adaptation: refers to the characteristics or behaviors that organisms develop over time to survive and reproduce in their environment.

Mimicry: It is a strategy in which an organism imitates another organism or elements of its environment to obtain advantages, such as avoiding predation or increasing its possibilities.

Heterotroph: It is an organism that obtains its food by consuming other living beings or organic matter.

Consumer: is an organism that obtains its food by consuming other organisms.

Autotroph: is an organism capable of producing its own food from inorganic energy sources, such as photosynthesis or chemosynthesis, without depending on other organisms to obtain nutrients.

Ecology - the study of the interrelationships of living organisms and their environment

Environment - all the living (biotic) and non-living (abiotic or physical) conditions that act on an organism and affect its chances of survival

Abiotic Factors - non-living or physical factors e.g. temperature, amount of water, amount of oxygen, amount of light

Biotic Factors - living factors e.g. amount of food, predators, parasites, competitors

Community - all the organisms in a particular area at a given time

Population - the number of a particular species in an area at a specific time

Ecosystem - a natural unit of living and non-living parts that interact to produce a stable system in which the exchange of materials between living and non-living parts cycles

Biome - A biome is a large, easily differentiated community unit arising as a result of complex interactions of climate, other physical factors and biotic factors. Examples of Biomes are tundra, temperate grassland, desert and tropical rainforest.

Biosphere - The Biosphere is the collective interaction of all the biomes on the Earth.

Symbiosis - a relationship in which two organisms of different species 'live together' for a period of time

Parasitism - a form of symbiosis in which one organism derives nutrients from the second organism which suffers some harm but is usually not killed (e.g. A tick is the parasite that feeds off a dog which is the host.)

Mutualism - a form of symbiosis in which both organisms help each other (e.g. A remora fish eats the algae and barnacles from the skin of a shark which, in turn, protects the remora.)

Commensalism - a form of symbiosis in which one organism helps the other organism, but there is no benefit or harm done in return (e.g. A clown fish lives inside a sea anemone and is protected by it. The sea anemone derives no benefit or harm from the relationship.)

Predator / Prey Relationships - the relationship in which one organism (predator) hunts and eats another (prey) (e.g. lion / antelope)

Competition - a relationship where two types of organisms compete for the same resource such as food, water, nesting site (e.g. sheep and kangaroos compete for grass)

Activities of other organisms (e.g. predators, disease-causing parasites)

Organism's own characteristics (e.g. gestation period, number of young produced, nurturing of young, migratory)

Structural - related to the structure of the organism (e.g. The streamlined shape of fish enables it to swim more quickly through water.)

Colour - related to colour (e.g. camouflage, warning colouration of blue-ringed octopus, mimicry of butterfly wings with 'eye spot')

Physiological - related to the organism's metabolism (e.g. During hibernation, bears reduce their chemical processes.)

Behavioural - related to behaviour (e.g. During the heat of the day in the desert, lizards burrow into the sand to find a cooler place.)

Reproductive - related to courtship, mating or rearing of young (e.g. Peacocks fan their feathers to attract a mate.)