apex predator

Definitions

An animal atop the food chain, preying on another animals, and not itself preyed upon.

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Examples

“a. 2007, Martha Hiatt, quoted in, 2007, Wendell Jamieson, Father Knows Less, or, "Can I cook⟳ my sister?", Putnam, →ISBN, page 203, Killer whales are the oceans' apex predators, which means they are at the top of the food chain.”

“And marijuana is not a Schedule⟳ I any more than a hedgehog is an apex predator. “You’re not scaring anyone, Roland. Get⟳ a tattoo.””

“With a bite⟳ that could split⟳ a shark in two and an armored mug only a mother could love⟳, Dunkleosteus was one of Earth’s earliest apex predators, terrorizing subtropical seas 360 million years ago during the Devonian Period.”

“Alessi did as he was told, and I found out later that [Ghislaine] Maxwell got out and followed me. I didn’t know⟳ it yet, but an apex predator was closing in.”

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