Mesopredator

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A medium-sized predator which often increases in abundance when larger predators are eliminated.

    "Raccoons, skunks, snakes, cats, and foxes are mesopredators."

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"Raccoons, skunks, snakes, cats, and foxes are mesopredators."

Etymology

From meso- + predator.

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