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Is a puffer fish a predator or prey?

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Mainly a predator, except to the tiger shark. Then It would be prey

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They puff up to become very large and possible scare off predators. The fish contains a toxin called tetrodotoxin which makes the fish taste bad and may kill the fish that ate it.

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neither because it has no natural predators but you could say predator because it eats corral a living being

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prey

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