Ramesh visited a National Park on a school trip where he saw tiger eating a deer. He got disturbed and asked his teacher why is he doing so. His teacher replied that it is natural population controlling phenomenon.
(i) Which type of interspecific interaction is found between tiger and deer?
(ii) State the role of predators.
(iii) What other type of population interactions are seen in nature?
(iv) State the values -of Ramesh towards animals.
(i) Predation (Tiger-predator and deer-prey).
(ii) The role of predators is
(a) To keep prey population under control.
(b) To help in maintaining species diversity in a community by reducing the intensity of competition among prey species.
(iii) Population interaction seen in nature are:
(a) Predation (b) Parasitism
© Commensalism (d) Mutualism
(iv) Animal lover and sympathy towards animals.