behind the big cat's and bear's, who is the top predator?

[Sully]

I say African Wild dogs as hunters, I heard they have an average kill rate of 80% and in the serengeti they have a 90% kill rate! There are obvious flaws in the Wild dog plan as they can easily be out muscled by bigger predators, but as I'm sure you've seen in vids they can as a pack devour an impala in a less than a minute sometimes, so that makes up for it.

Here is some data on them and their diets.

Diet:

Quote:Wild dogs mostly hunt medium-sized antelope, with the preferred species varying   according to the most abundant prey species in the area. The proportions of prey taken by wild dogs in various study sites across Africa include (Woodroffe et al. 1997):

• Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe: impala (60%), kudu (30%), reedbuck (2%).
• Kruger National Park, South Africa: impala (52%), kudu (12%), reedbuck (15%).
• Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya: Thompson's gazelle (67%), impala (17%), wildebeest (8%).
• Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana: impala (85%), kudu, lechwe; Namibia: reedbuck, wildebeest, roan, duiker.
• Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania: impala (69%), wildebeest (11%) reedbuck (3%), warthog (3%).
• Serengeti National Park, Tanzania: Thompson's gazelle (57%), wildebeest (40%), Grant's gazelle, zebra .
  

• Zambia: impala, reedbuck, hartebeest, oribi.
  

Dominant species include (percentage of kills) (Schaller 1972):

• Kafue National Park (Zambia) - duiker (26%), reedbuck (25%)
• Kruger National Park (South Africa) - impala (87%) (total of 20 species)
• Serengeti (Tanzania) - Thomson's gazelle (42%), wildebeest (38%) (total of 12 species)
  

Most prey species weigh between 20 - 90 kg (44 - 200 lb), but animals as small as cane rats (5 kg (11 lb)) and as large as greater kudu (about 310 kg (680 lb)) have been reported in the diet (Macdonald 1984).
Calculating a single consumption rate per ecosystem yields 2.0 - 2.5 kg/dog/day (4.4 - 5.5 lb/dog/day) in Selous, 2.3 kg/dog/day (5.1 lb/dog/day) in Serengeti, 3.5 kg/dog/day (7.7 lb/dog/day) in Kruger, and 4.7 kg/dog/day (10.3 lb/dog/day) in Aitong (Creel & Creel 1998).
Wild dogs also readily scavenge meat.

http://www.animalinfo.org/species/carnivor/lycapict.htm

Fast enough as creatures and strong enough as a unit to take down Africa's fast and furious ranging from gazelle to wildebeest. Reply