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Analysis Of 'Superpredator' By Chris Darimont

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Have you even seen or want to see a “superpredator?” If not, just go outside and look at the people around you or look in a mirror.
Researchers have studied the hunting habits of birds, fishes, wild mammals, and humans. A new study shows that humans are very unique and strange predators. Humans prey and hunt adult animals in large numbers, unlike any other animal. Researchers warn that this style of hunting may push populations of those prey into decline.
People mainly target prey that is old enough to reproduce. Chris Darimont is a conservation scientist at the University of Victoria in Canada. He states that these are the animals that have the babies and keep the population going. Many animals do not survive their childhood and die before

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