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Theoretically there could be some instances of these higher level consumers but effectively it all comes down to the transfer of energy between trophic (feeding) levels. No energy transfer is 100% efficient and biological transfers are generally much less so.

Because there is less energy retained in each successive trophic level from that converted to biomass by plants from sun light each trophic level must consist of less biomass. there is less mass of antelope than of plants and less again of lions. if something ate lions there would be so few they could not support a population.

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