Which of these creatures would you say is the apex predator among all others on planet earth?

[Still-alive]

Orca/killer whales

Great white sharks

Tigers

Polar bears

bacteria and/or Viruses

Humans

Other

[Kori1236]

Obviously humans with viruses and bacteria taking a close second. But orcas can be deadly jerks. Launching seals with their tails, hunting sharks for their livers, drowning whale calves to only eat the tongue. I’m someone who loves sharks and a lot of the time their bites are accidental misidentification or territorial. For example I would blame a bull shark bite in an estuary or river on territorial and protectiveness since that’s generally where they’ll pup. And other times it could be intentional like abalone hunters being picked off when crossing shark alley. For polar bears they pretty much leave you alone but with recent ice changes it wouldn’t surprise me if they start preying on humans easy kills and easy meat.

[Caroline91]

@Kori1236 Have you heard of the fairly recent behavior of Orcas attacking and even sinking boats? It's kind of fascinating. www.iflscience.com/the-puzzling-rise-in-orca-attacks-on-boats-has-been-explained-by-whale-scientists-74395

[Kori1236]

Yeah I have, the theory is the matriarch was injured by boats so now they target them to disable and given their huge size they’ve started sinking them too

[DrPepper12]

Let's not forget the rapist dolphins and ducks. Ducks will even fuck a dead duck. Theyre r twisted.

[Kori1236]

Yup actually fun fact about ducks their anatomy changed to make it even more difficult to do the deed and the males anatomy change to be like not today Satan

[Caroline91]

OMG. I cannot stop laughing!!

[Cute_Miss_Laura]

@DrPepper12 😂😂😂! OMG, I can’t stop laughing! Thank you, I now have a new insult; “Go fuck a dead duck! You’re twisted!” 😂😂😂

[DrPepper12]

@Cute_Miss_Laura I'm gonna use that too!! 😂

[Cute_Miss_Laura]

@DrPepper12 I know, it’s great, right? 😂

[Cute_Miss_Laura]

All of the above! They are all Apex predators within their own environments! It's exceedingly rare that more than one apex predator will reside in the same hunting territory. Although when it happens, you often see one apex predator predating upon the other! (such as, when Orca's wander into the hunting territory of sharks and end up, killing the sharks and liver to eat, with surgical–like precision!).

Laura 🤗 🥰

[RebelinSteel]

If you ask them, my two cats are.
they routinely decimate the local rat and mouse population,

last year I was getting neat lines of dead rats on the lawn, 12 was longest line they made

[LaurenM1997]

Oh wow 😯

[captain_voidwalker]

Humans are the apex predator. We have one advantage over all other organisms on the planet. All other animals adapt to thier environment, but humans adapt our environment to suit us

[Caroline91]

Wars kill more beings than anything else. Only humans wage war,

[Still-alive]

true but being facetious for a moment i heard ants have a perpetual war going with termites since time immemorial lol

[Caroline91]

Ok…You win!

[northerngal]

Well going with the obvious... Humans. We are the only species capable of turning the entire planet into a barren wasteland

[Wiredone]

That would be my last dog. He killed everything racoon and gopher that came into my back yard in one season. I haven't had one rodent in my yard since, and that was 5 years ago.

[DrPepper12]

Ever read "The Most Dangerous Game"?

[Caroline91]

Yes.

[OddBeMe]

According to apothecary tables…. refrigerators. They kill more than all the animals above combined. Humans do kill but 80% is accidental or not predatory.

[OddBeMe]

Although the most dangerous predator: the Mosquito

For the diseases they spread.

[Alex-Snow]

Humans... they kill each other for fun not for food like most animals

[msc545]

Humans have a forebrain, which is the deadliest adaption ever so far.

[electromagnetic]

I say fire ants.

[joehypo1]

Driver ants , army ants are pretty hard core

[sheenagwapa]

i am so scared of sharks

[Ms_Facesitter]

Oopsie, I did not see the human option.

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Tigers/Cats

[Likes2drive]

Viruses can take out any creature any size

[RedInnocent69]

Sea, orca. Land, polar bear.

[ceren27]

i am so scared of sharks