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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.
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.
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 ...
Animal Humans killed per year Animal Humans killed per year Animal Humans killed per year 1 Mosquitoes: 1,000,000 [a] Mosquitoes 750,000 Mosquitoes 725,000 2 Humans 475,000 Humans (homicide) 437,000 Snakes 50,000 3 Snakes: 50,000 Snakes 100,000 Dogs 25,000 4 Dogs: 25,000 [b] Dogs 35,000 Tsetse flies 10,000 5 Tsetse flies: 10,000 [c] Freshwater ...
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.
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 ...
The following list contains the largest terrestrial members of the order Carnivora, ranked in accordance to their maximum mass. List. Rank Common name