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Pages in category "Predatory animals" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bear; C. Cobra; E.
Saber-toothed predator; Salmon shark; Saltwater crocodile; Sarcosuchus; Sea otter; Short-finned pilot whale; Siamese crocodile; Smilodon; Snow leopard; South Asian river dolphin; Southern African rock python; Sperm whale; Spotted hyena; Sri Lankan leopard; Steller's sea eagle; Sturgeon
They also use other predatory species such as dogs, cormorants, [174] and falcons to catch prey for food or for sport. [175] Two mid-sized predators, dogs and cats, are the animals most often kept as pets in western societies.
Although the term "bird of prey" could theoretically be taken to include all birds that actively hunt and eat other animals, [4] ornithologists typically use the narrower definition followed in this page, [5] excluding many piscivorous predators such as storks, cranes, herons, gulls, skuas, penguins, and kingfishers, as well as many primarily ...
Thus, great white sharks are not true apex predators. Despite coexisting the majority of the time, confrontations may occur in stressed environments when both species compete for limited resources. An apex predator, also known as a top predator or superpredator, is a predator [a] at the top of a food chain, without natural predators of its own ...
This is a list of large carnivores known to prey on humans. The order Carnivora consists of numerous mammal species specialized in eating flesh. This list does not include animal attacks on humans by domesticated species (dogs), or animals held in zoos, aquaria, circuses, private homes or other non-natural settings.
In Defense Of Animals says, "In the wild, elephants thrive into their 60s, raising calves well into their 50s and roaming up to 30 miles daily.In zoos like Los Angeles Zoo, where enclosures are ...
Populations of large predatory fish in the global oceans were estimated to be about 10% of their pre-industrial levels by 2003, [1] and they are most at risk of extinction; there was a disproportionate level of large predatory fish extinctions during the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 66 million years ago. [2]