Which animal is highest in the food chain?

Answer 1

Well Whales like the fin whale are not preyed by any one so they could be considered at the top of the food chain. Also Killer whales and the Great White Shark could be top predators sinse they could eat almost anybody.

Answer 2

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"!

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

The camel because it is live

Answer 6

The Great White Shark is.

Answer 7

humans, then there is big cats

Answer 8

Homo-sapiens... Us, the humans.

Answer 9

Humans