55 Fearsome Apex Predator Tattoos
Are you a predator or prey?
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Are you a predator or prey?
In the animal kingdom, all fauna is separated into predator and prey. But, the top predators have the ultimate power and they re known as apex predators. Apex predators occupy the highest trophic levels, meaning they re at the tippy top of their food chain. Throughout the world, there are many different apex predators which range from mammals to reptiles to birds of prey. Take a look at some of our favorite apex predators in the gallery below, then let us know if you have a tattoo of a fearsome predator in the comments section on social media.
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Confirmed North Atlantic right whales off Massachusetts and Rhode Island seen on survey flights or recorded by passive acoustic detectors, January-April 2021 with 730 sighting events and 183 acoustic detections. WhaleMap image via NOAA.
Endangered northern right whales that have been arriving earlier in spring and staying longer around Cape Cod have also expanded their presence south and west of Nantucket Shoals, into areas planned for large-scale development of offshore wind power, according to the National Marine Fisheries Service.
Scientists from the NMFS Northeast Fisheries Science Center conducting surveillance flights spotted 57 fight whales March 30 off southeast New England, in and around wind energy areas that have been leased to developers by the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
Updated 8:27 PM ET, Wed May 5, 2021
This image from NOAA s GOES-16 satellite animation shows some of the millions of lightning events that were detected on Tuesday, May 4, 2021. (CNN)It s not just you Tuesday s storms were absolutely electric. Nearly 4.5 million lightning events were detected, which is the busiest the skies have been since May 20, 2017, according to experts who follow the charge.
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00 UTC 4 May 2021 - 00 UTC 5 May 2021 is the busiest #lightning day in North America since 2017!
The NALDN detected 4,498,673 events yesterday, the most since 4,547,173 events were detected on May 20, 2017. pic.twitter.com/Z7zP69KIVa Chris Vagasky (@COweatherman) May 5, 2021
It s not just you Tuesday s storms were absolutely electric. Nearly 4.5 million lightning events were detected, which is the busiest the skies have been since May 20, 2017, according to experts who follow the charge. Based on research that I ve done looking at lightning counts across the United States, the top 1% of lightning days produce about 3.1 million lightning events, so this was truly a high-end day, Chris Vagasky, lightning applications manager at Vaisala, told CNN. The last time the skies were this electrified was nearly four years ago, when more than 4.5 million lightning events were detected.
Satellites capture imagery of the busiest lightning day in years