is man the only species on earth which doest have a natural predator?

Answer 1

No, all predators that are the top predators in their ecological niche do not have natural predators that control their population, these top predators are controlled by disease and by availability of food, which are enough.
Man has developed technologies to avoid these control factors, however some disease such as Aids acts as a population controller among humans, especially in 3rd world countries.
it is also possible that some time in the future the size of human population will cause the availability of food to act a a control, but that seems rather far fetched, as technology is generally far ahead in supplying food, than the increase in the demand for food, the only exception is places where people do not use enough technology to produce food, such as 3rd world countries (again)

Answer 2

No man is prey for pretty much any large carnivore, were just usually sensible enought to stay out there way. The only animals which dont have natural predators are Polar Bears and Hippopotamus, even humans don't hunt them as their meat is not palatable. You could argue that Lions and Tigers are also free from predators however their meat can be eaten by people just not many people are prepared to risk hunting them as we'd prob come off worst

Answer 3

it depends on many factors.

5 adult humans with machine guns and rocket launchers will never encounter a natural predator.

1 unarmed human could easily be eaten by, say, a polar bear.

there's a phrase for this - "apex predator", defined as "predators that as adults are not preyed upon in the wild under normal circumstances". these include:

1. big cats hunting in groups (especially lions and tigers)
2. killer whale
3. polar bears
4. big snakes (anaconda, python)
5. great white shark

etc. etc.

Answer 4

Lions and sharks and giant snakes are not predators of man, anyone who thinks so, is obviously a city dweller with a less than average education.

Man, is at the top of the food chain and have NO NATURAL ENEMY. (other men don't count, we don't eat them, not on regular basis anyway.)

To answer your question. Elephants, hippos, bears, crocs, gators and whales and a few others have no natural enemy other than man. Man, however preys on everything, so in reality, man is the only species with no natural enemy.

There are isloated incidents when man have been killed and or eaten by other predators, these happen due to invading territory, to close to young, extreme hunger, wounded, sleeping, disease, mistaking man for another animal ie. surfers look like tortoise. The instances are quite rare. There are many recorded instance where a man (singular) has scared off Lions, tigers, fought off sharks attacks, awoken with snakes attempting to get ahold of them and killed them, the killing of children by animals doesn't count, they're not men, they're kids. I mean when a group of hungry dogs gather then can kill a man, is mans best friend our natural predator? When a man falls into a lake full of piranhas, and gets stripped to the bone in minutes, are they our natural predator? The answer is NO. Man is smaller than say a water buffalo, so why don't Lions, tiger, cheetahs etc. hunt men instead, a hundred pound man is surly easier to kill than a 1000 pound water buffalo with mortal wounding horns, a 200 pound gazell can run much, much faster than even the fastest human, so why eat those, when a man is so much easier?

I'm not saying it never happens, because it does, but it's rare.

Answer 5

Those predators mentioned above are not our natural predators.I think the not so fortunate one's( ppol accidentally preyed on by natural predators) were intering thier domain and ACCIDENTALLY took them as an easy prey w/c of course is thier nature.Naturally in my opinion humans have no natural predators.

Answer 6

In a way humans do have predators. They are Fire, Water, Earth Wind, I wished I knew the exact figure from the beginning of man, how many lives have been lost in Earthquakes, Fires, Tsunami's, Tornado's, Hurricane's. Even in this day and age of Man and throughout Human existence, they will always be a threat to the Human Race.

Answer 7

The biggest natural predator to man is man himself.

Answer 8

I don't believe tigers have natural predators (They are the biggest cat, and will hunt smaller ones like cheetahs and lions on occasion). Nor do great whites. We hunt both these species on occasion, but we're not their "natural predator". Put us one on one with either, and we're dinner.

Answer 9

Of course man has natural predators! Just because you townies dont encounter them on the weekly shopping trip....
Have you tried patting a wild Bengal tiger, polar bear, lion, crocodile, Great White shark, etc, etc?

Answer 10

We do have natural predators perhaps not in the Uk but in other countries such as africa there are lions, tigers and in the USA there are bears and suchlike to name a few.
As we no longer live in tribes in the wild, then they pose little risk to us nowadays but if we went back to living in our natural state then of course other, larger animals would prey on us.