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Delphinidae
What Eats Orcas?
Orcas, commonly known as killer whales, sit firmly atop most marine food chains thanks to their power and collective hunting capacities. However, several rare circumstances can still turn these dominant apex predators into prey themselves. In this article, we dive deep into 5 known killers of orcas under special situations, exploring why each poses an opportunistic threat. [ez-toc] Great White…
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Phocidae
What Eats A Seals?
Seals comprise a diverse aquatic mammal group, including fur seals, sea lions, and walruses. As primarily fish-eating carnivores themselves, seals also feature prominently in the diets of certain apex ocean predators. Several marine mammal species have evolved outstanding adaptations for catching different types of seals to gain the calorie-rich energy stores they provide. In addition, some land predators make successful…
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Didelphidae
What Eats A Possum (Or Opossum?)
Opossums or possums comprise diverse marsupial species that form part of New World and Australian ecosystems. Although they have some means of defending themselves, possums still occupy a middle food chain level between numerous predators and their diet of smaller creatures. As primarily nocturnal animals, possums must continually evade and occasionally outmaneuver carnivores of the night, intent on catching what…
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Superfamily Papilionoidea
What Eats A Moth Or Butterfly Or Moth?
There are many thousands of species of butterflies and moths (both belonging to the scientific order Lepidoptera), and they live all over and around the world, from the Arctic to the tropical rain forests at the earth’s equator. About the only place they don’t live is Antarctica. As caterpillars, most moths and butterflies eat a variety of leaves and other…
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Chondrichthyes
What Eats A Shark?
As apex ocean predators, sharks sit atop complex marine food webs with powerful jaws and lightning reflexes, enabling them to feast on slower fish and invertebrates with ease. But even these efficient hunters must watch their backs, as several formidable enemies like to make meals out of sharks as well. This article will explore what eats sharks and detail those…
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Education
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Suidae
What Eats Pigs?
As an important livestock animal raised on farms around the world, pigs can fall prey to a variety of meat-eating predators. While adult pigs have thick skin, tusks, and bulk, protecting them from many hunters, young piglets are vulnerable prey. In this article, we will explore the 5 most dangerous animals that hunt, kill, and eat domestic pigs and wild…
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Bovidae
What Eats Sheep?
Domesticated sheep have been an integral livestock species to humankind over thousands of years, prized for their wool, milk, and meat. But despite their close relationship with people, sheep have retained their vulnerable prey animal status, lacking defensive adaptations. This makes them tempting targets for predators when not properly safeguarded. As human civilization transitioned from hunter-gatherer to agriculture, wild sheep…
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Amoebidae
What Eats An Amoeba?
Amoebas are unicellular protists that morph into a variety of shapes by extending and retracting pseudopod limbs from their plasma membranes. Ranging in length from 0.1mm to 0.5mm, these master adaptors inhabit aqueous environments and moist soils across the planet. As omnipresent microbes, amoebas play a fundamental role in ecological food chains. They graze primarily on bacteria, algae, plant cells,…
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Arachnids
What Eats A Tarantula?
Tarantulas are large, hairy spiders that live in warm areas around the world. Over 1,000 different species exist – mostly active at night hunting small insects, lizards, and rodents for food. But despite the intimidating size, tarantulas have their own set of predators trying to make meals out of them. Well-camouflaged burrows provide tarantulas refuge from many predator attacks during…
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Alligatoridae
What Eats A Caiman?
What Eats A Caiman? What Does A Caiman Eat? The caiman is South and Central America’s big, sharp-toothed reptile. It is related to several similar looking—and similarly toothy—aquatic reptiles, all of which are called crocodilians. The order of crocodilia includes regular crocs and gators, along with caimans and gharials. Some caiman species can grow to a length of 16 feet,…
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Vertebrates
What Eats Children?
Like every other species on earth, we humans are all part of a food web. Fortunately for us, we occupy the very center of that food web, which means that, while we ourselves eat many kinds of vegetables, fruits, and animals, very few other living things view us as something good to eat. So, what does eat kids? In the…
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