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Birds
What Eats A Chicken?
Popular domesticated birds raised for their flavorful meat and eggs include chickens. These feathery companions do, however, face certain predators that regard them as a delectable meal. It is rare for commercial poultry farming to involve predators. However, predation is a significant worry for organic poultry growers and backyard flocks. The way flocks are kept and handled accounts for this…
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Bovidae
What Eats A Cow?
Many other species, in addition to humans, also use cows as a common food source. Cows are prey for several predators despite the common misconception that they are large, peaceful animals. That the cow, an enormous animal, is easily hunted is hard to comprehend. It is true to a certain degree, but the conclusions are astonishing when you look at…
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Fish
What Eats An Eel?
Slipping through murky waters from rivers to reefs, eels inhabit an incredible diversity of aquatic habitats across the globe. Over 800 species fill niches as predators and prey, from tiny two-inch worm eels to giant morays reaching 13 feet long. Yet even these slippery fish get eaten by a variety of aquatic and terrestrial animals. This article explores what eats…
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Cetacean
What Eats A Whale?
Whales fill a vital niche as giant marine mammals that traverse all the world’s oceans. From tiny porpoises to enormous blue whales, cetaceans play integral roles in ocean ecology as majestic predators near the top of marine food chains. Yet even these aquatic titans fall prey on occasion to various creatures, great and small, leading to an evasive struggle for…
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Rodents
What Eats A Chipmunk?
Chipmunks are close to the bottom of the food chain, and near the outside of the food web, so a lot of other creatures like to eat them. The chipmunk’s predators, or natural enemies, include many types of hawks, numerous snakes, and predatory mammals such as weasels and foxes. A chipmunk must remain very alert in order to stay alive.…
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Primate
What Eats An Orangutan?
Orangutans are found on only two islands in the world: Borneo and Sumatra. Sumatra belongs to the country of Indonesia, and Borneo is shared by Indonesia and Malaysia. On Sumatra, the orangutan’s main predators, or natural enemies, are tigers and leopards. Tigers are very rare, however, because people have killed most of them off. On Borneo, there are no tigers,…
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Mammals
What Eats A Hippopotamus?
An adult hippo is a huge, aggressive animal, and no animal ever attacks one or tries to eat one. Even the largest crocodiles are afraid of a hippopotamus. However, baby hippos sometimes are eaten by other animals when they stray away from their mothers. Crocodiles, lions and hyenas all sometimes eat young hippos if they are able to attack them…
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Mammals
What Eats A Deer?
Deer have many predators, or natural enemies. Animals that like to kill and eat deer include wild canids — or “dog-like” animals—such as wolves and coyotes. Big cats such as cougars, jaguars and lynx also hunt deer. Bears kill and eat deer and, in tropical and subtropical forests, large snakes, such as anacondas, and crocodilians, such as alligators and caimans,…
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Dinosaurs
What Eats A Dinosaur?
Nothing eats dinosaurs, because dinosaurs are extinct. That means they no longer exist. The last dinosaurs died out around 60 million years ago. However, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, most species, or kinds, of them had predators, or natural enemies. All of the animals that ate dinosaurs were other dinosaurs. The most famous dinosaur predator was Tyrannosaurus rex, which looked…
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Mammals
What Eats A Mole?
Birds of prey such as hawks can catch moles when they are moving above ground. But moles prefer to stay in their underground tunnels, so usually the only animals that can eat them are animals that can dig them out of the ground. Foxes and coyotes often dig moles out of their hideouts, and so do weasels. Snakes sometimes catch…
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Deer
What Eats A Moose?
The moose is the largest member of the deer family. It is such a large herbivore, or plant-eating animal, that it only has two predators or natural enemies. Wolves often attack, kill and eat moose. But usually it takes many wolves to kill a moose. Grizzly bears also eat moose. Grizzlies prefer to eat young, or baby moose, because they…
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Great Apes
What Eats A Chimpanzee?
What eats a chimpanzee? As our closest living relatives share 98% of human DNA, chimpanzees captivate the fascination of researchers and wildlife enthusiasts alike. These highly intelligent great apes display intriguingly complex social behaviors and survival strategies. However, chimpanzees must also contend with a suite of lethal predators throughout their native habitats in Equatorial Africa. Both opportunistic and active hunters…
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