In this model, two situations are described. In the first, an owl catches and eats a mouse. In the second, two seed-eating bird species feed on the same limited seed supply and each obtains less seed because the other is present. How should these two situations be classified?
Explication
One organism killing and eating another is predation, while two species reducing each other's share of one limited resource is competition. Swapping the two labels fails because neither bird eats the other bird in the second situation.