Britannica guide to predators and prey

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Meat eaters

raptors, sharks, and crocodiles
2011
Provides an overview of raptors, sharks, and crocodiles, with information on their hunting methods, habitat, appearance, behavior, and natural history.

Primates

2011
An overview of primates that discusses their general features, morphology, paleontology, evolution, lemurs, monkeys, apes, early hominins, and humans.

Rats, bats, and xenarthrans

2011
Describes various types of rodents, such as rats, mice, beavers, chinchillas, and flying squirrels, types of bats, including Old World and New World bats, and types of xenarthrans, which includes armadillos, sloths, and anteaters, discussing their importance to people, their natural history, evolution, form and function, habitats, life cycles, and classification.

Reptiles and amphibians

2011
An in-depth exploration of the different reptiles and amphibians of the world, discussing their diversity of species, their wide geographic distribution, the roles they perform in their ecosystems, and their purity of form and function.

Carnivores

meat-eating mammals
2011
Provides an overview of the world's carnivorous animals, with information on each meat-eating species' habitat, hunting style, and natural history.

Grazers

2011
Provides information on the world's grazing animals, covering the abundance, distribution, natural history, eating habits, behavior, and appearance of even-toed ungulates, deer, antelopes, sheep, goats, cattle, swine, giraffids, horses, grazing marsupials, and proboscideans.
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