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I would of thought it would me Humans as theres is nothing that is a real predator to us apart from ourselves. The same goes for sharks but we eats shark-fin soup so i think we win ;) We don't eat lions but they eat us! I suppose the lion is "King of the Jungle"!
Usually food chains go as high as the tertiary consumer (animals that eats an animal that eats another animal that eats a herbivore). Besides the fact that food chains are an over simplification (it's more like food web interactions and not one linear chain) it's not a static concept. For instance, humans can be high in one food chain, but we still can get eaten by another animal. Case by case analysis.
Ecologists rank species by their diets using a metric called the trophic level. Pure apex predators (animals that eat only other animals and have no predators of their own, like tigers, crocodiles, boa constrictors, polar bears, and orcas) are at the top of the food chain with a trophic level of 5.5.
The widely held belief that humans are at the top of the food chain is actually wrong. Humans are nowhere near the top. Plants, which produce their own food, are given a rank of 1. Herbivores, which eat only plants, are ranked 2.
A team of French researchers used food supply data from the U.N Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) to calculate the human trophic level (HTL) for every country for which data is available, and their results were published December 2, 2013 in the Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences. They found that based on diet, humans score a 2.21, roughly equal to anchovies and pigs.
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What are the animals highest in a food chain?
An animal at the top of the food chain is called an apex predator,meaning no other creature,except for man hunts that animal. Ex.Wolf,Lion
Where are bulldog bats on the food chain?
because its an animal and every animal is on the food chain
What eats the Arctic wolf?
no other animal eats an arctic wolf because it is in the highest level of the food chain. It will only die due to reasons such as age, hunger, thirst etc.No other animal eats the Arctic wolf because it's the highest in the food chain so that means its the highest predator
Are aardvark part of a food chain?
Every animal is in the food chain
What is the highest level in a food chain?
The highest level in a food chain is the top predator, also known as the apex predator. These are animals that have no natural predators in their ecosystem and are at the top of the food chain, such as lions or sharks.
What place is the savanna hawk in the food chain?
right after it eats the snake it is the highest on the food chain
Is carnivores on top of the food chain or bottom and why?
If an animal has no predators then it is at the top of the food chain. Such an animal is called an apex predator.
What is a giraffes food chain?
a giraffes food chain is something that the other animal eats some other animal
What animal eat clover in food chain?
an animal
Do wildebeest and vultures compete in the food chain?
Every animal competes in a food chain
Where on the food chain is the animal?
it is on the second consumer, where the animal is found
What are the animals in a food chain called?
The organism at the lowest end of the food chain is the producer, although it is rarely an animal.The organism at the highest end of the food chain is, depending on the number of organisms in said food chain, is a tertiary, secondary, or primary consumer.Next Answer:I always assumed that was what "apex predator" meant.
