Apex Predator II: Bubo Sumatranus

There's something weirdly intergalactic about some animals. The Barred Eagle Owl (Bubo Sumatranus) is definitely a Terminator-bird, and one day, I'm sure, it'll evolve the ability to create temporal warps allowing near-instant travel across the vast inky blackness of space.

Human kind is so insulated from the visceral realities of life by the blanket of civilisation with which we surround ourselves. Bubo Sumatranus doesn't play on the Xbox. Bubo Sumatranus doesn't avoid the library for most of his adult life and then complain when it gets shut down. Bubo Sumatranus doesn't eat so much wasabi that he's sick and has no appetite for five days. And for those reasons, Bubo Sumatranus will inherit the earth. Possibly.