Apex predator doesn't mean nothing else kills them, especially when you're mixing domains. An animal that's unmatched in one domain might be distinctly disadva

Apex predator doesn't mean nothing else kills them, especially when you're mixing domains. An animal that's unmatched in one domain might be distinctly disadvantaged in another (e.g. polar bears in a vanishing ice cap). But quibbling over that definition is willfully obfuscating the point. > I don't know of many predators that seem to kill just to kill like cats seem to? I've seen a dog kill another dog and walk away. I've seen crows kill a squirrel and only pick out it's eyes. Hell, I've seen a squirrel kill all the baby birds in a nest and only eat one, in case you didn't think squirrels ate meat. Does that mean dogs, crows and squirrels are murderers or do it for fun? The problem with cats is they live in close proximity to us, so we see first hand what they're up to, and they have a set of routine behaviors that don't exactly match our human perception of how predators are "suppose" to behave. But instead of trying to understand them in context, some people anthropomorphise them and make the cat "evil", a "murderer" or whatever.