Crocodiles. Even when someone tries to make them look funny, as in the Disney version of Peter Pan, they still come off as menacing. Nothing looks more like a carnivorous… Read the rest of the article: Alan Dean Foster: Predators I Have Known – Orinoco crocodile

Humans are such visual creatures. Take away big eyes (baby seals) and fur (most mammals) and often what is left is the ick factor. Not many creatures have a bigger… Read the rest of the article: Alan Dean Foster: Predators I Have Known – orb weaver spider

There are river otters, and clawless otters, and sea otters, and then there is the giant otter of South America. Six feet long and up to eighty pounds in weight,… Read the rest of the article: Alan Dean Foster: Predators I Have Known – giant otter

So iconic and blatant is the tiger in its coloring, that to observe one close-up and in the wild is like seeing a cartoon come to life. There's a slight… Read the rest of the article: Alan Dean Foster: Predators I Have Known – tiger

It's a funny thing about great white sharks (and that's not a contradiction in terms). They smile. Exactly the kind of smile you would expect to get if you crossed… Read the rest of the article: Alan Dean Foster: Predators I Have Known – great white shark