Science for Children of All Ages.
Pick a predator and swipe its dinner out of the air.
Every animal that comes up past you lives where your hunter lives: the coyote's prairie sends up prairie dogs and quail, the lynx's forest sends up roe deer and chamois. Swipe what your hunter eats. Let the ones that hunt it go by, or the round ends there and you find out why.
Nothing in this game is invented. An animal flies past a hunter because it lives where that hunter lives and really is eaten by it, and the ones that end a round really do kill it. Here is the whole of it, which a minute of play is too short to show.
North American prairie
A coyote will eat almost anything: mice, rabbits, lizards, grasshoppers, fish. Being fussy about dinner is how an animal runs out of places to live, and the coyote is not fussy. That is why there are coyotes in deserts, in forests, and in the middle of cities.
Eats 11
Rabbit
Hare
Mouse
Vole
Ground squirrel
Prairie dog
Quail
Snake
Lizard
Grasshopper
FishHunted by 4
Gray wolf
Cougar
Golden eagle
Brown bear
North American northern forest
Wolves hunt animals many times their own weight by working as a pack, and they finish what they find: a carcass somebody else left is a meal, not a waste. One wolf cannot bring down a moose. Eight can.
Eats 8
Deer
Elk
MooseHareRabbit
BeaverMouse
CarrionHunted by 2
Brown bearGray wolf
European forest
A Eurasian lynx is a deer hunter the size of a big dog. It stalks in close and then takes one or two bounds. The hunt is over in seconds, or it is over because the deer heard it, and most of them are over because the deer heard it.
Eats 9
HareRabbit
Roe deer
Chamois
Red squirrel
Small birdMouseVole
Red foxHunted by 3
Gray wolfBrown bearGolden eagle
European woodland and meadow
A red fox eats mice, beetles, eggs, frogs and fruit, and buries what it cannot finish to dig up later. Being able to eat anything is why the red fox lives in more places than almost any other wild carnivore: farmland, forest, desert, and the middle of a city.
Eats 12
MouseVoleRabbitHareRed squirrelSmall bird
Nest of eggsGrasshopper
FrogLizardFishCarrionHunted by 3
Gray wolfEurasian lynxGolden eagle
Rocky Mountain forest
A cougar hunts alone and can bring down an elk five times its own weight, then drags the kill somewhere hidden, covers it with branches, and comes back to it for days. Almost nothing up here hunts a grown cougar. The danger is losing the kill, and with it the week's food.
Eats 9
DeerElkMoose
Bighorn sheep
Mountain goatRabbitHare
PorcupineBeaverHunted by 2
Gray wolfBrown bear
Soak it, pull it apart, and find out what the owl ate.
Line up three and the bear eats. Berries are worth one. Salmon is worth six.
Hunt all night, carry it home, and decide which owlet eats.