Does an animal without natural enemies exist? Although all things are mutually exclusive, but there are really such animals

Do animals without natural enemies exist in the world?

I think everything in the world is mutually exclusive, in the same time and space, there is no absolute weakness, there is no absolute strength. In the natural world is also the same, in theory, there is no absolute super top predator, there must be a creature that can restrain it.

But some people will guess that there is no natural enemy based on their subjective assumptions, but do such creatures exist?

The fierce northeastern tiger is the largest big cat, they are born top predators, in China's northeast and Siberia, the northeastern tiger can prey on any animal, but they have no natural predators and no competitors.

Adult male brown bears are considered the strongest competitors of the Northeast tiger. In several cases of observed battles between brown bears and Northeast tigers, although the Northeast tiger has a much higher winning rate, adult male brown bears have also preyed on adult Northeast tigers.

The world's largest creature, the blue whale, can do whatever it wants with its huge size. It is not, there has been more than once scientists have observed the orca group siege blue whale, and finally will be blue whale predation.

In the African continent, known as "a brother" of the lion although the success rate of hunting is not high, can only reach about 20%, but with its sharp teeth, claws, and teamwork ability to become the top predator, even the bite ability of outstanding hyenas are afraid to let the lion three points, but the lion to see the adult African bison or elephants will also avoid a head-on conflict.

This shows that even the most powerful animals also have their opponents or natural enemies.

My idea of an "invincible" creature: is the marching ant

But if I have to answer this question, I think there is an animal in nature that has no natural enemy, at least until now biologists have not found a natural enemy of this animal, it is the marching ant.

It is the marching ant. How can an insignificant ant be an animal without natural enemies? The marching ants live near the Amazon basin and are migratory ants, small in size but moving in colonies, seemingly weak, but able to prey on any creature they see on their way.

Terrible marching ants, invincible

Ants are indeed a special kind of animal. There are three kinds of creatures on earth that can wage war on their own, ants, chimpanzees, and humans. They are social swarmers, consisting of a queen, male ants, soldier ants, and worker ants. This is also the case with the marching ants we are talking about today.

The marching ants are slightly larger than the common ants and have tan-colored bodies. They have the largest clusters of any ant species, with millions to tens of millions of ants in each colony.

From small insects to large pythons and antelopes, marching ants will take them all!

In the rainforest, they are the elite of the ant family, preying on all creatures they encounter. The only sound they leave behind is the "click" of dead leaves and branches. Their diet is very diverse, ranging from plant sap, insects, rodents, reptiles, and large mammals.

Sometimes they will attack other ant colonies they encounter, initiating war. Like our invasive species, the red fire ant, the marching ants will assemble into "ant balls" to float in rivers, or "ant bridges" when they encounter deep ditches or hanging prey.

Everywhere they go, from small insects to pythons and antelopes, as long as they are targeted by the marching ants, they will turn into a set of white bones in the end. In front of the marching ants, they have no mercy on any creature, and the marching ant team will gobble up the prey in front of them with a destructive force.

Do marching ants have natural predators?

In the past, some biologists believed that banana slugs were the only natural predators of marching ants. Banana slugs are slugs in temperate rainforests that eat roots, fruits, and seeds, as well as animal carcasses, including ants.

When the marching ants and banana slugs meet, they are destined to have a nasty fight. The banana slugs secrete mucus that sticks to the approaching ants, making them unable to move.

The number of marching ants was so large that the banana slug could only resist the attack of marching ants by secreting mucus continuously, and the marching ants would hold the pheromone of emitting ants to summon their companions to attack the banana slug.

Although thousands of marching ants were stuck on the banana slug's body, the marching ants kept coming, and the later marching ants would move the soil and spread it on the banana slug's body to cover the mucus secreted by the banana slug with soil.

At a later stage, when the banana slugs cannot secrete more mucus, the marching ants also wait for the time to take revenge and they will tear the banana slugs apart.

Finally

Scientists have not yet found a natural enemy for the marching ants, but this does not mean that there is no natural enemy for the marching ants, perhaps it has just not been discovered yet.