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What eats a narwhal?

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Answer #1 Humans eat Narwhals. Polar bears, sharks, killer whales and walruses eat them too! Answer #2 by Shabootaqay Orca whales are the Narwhals' greatest natural predators. Narwhals avoid the orcas by staying in the cracks between glaciers in the winter. Orca whales are unable to stay there because they are too big to fit, and because they have dorsal fins, which hinder their ability to squeeze through tight spaces. The narwhal has no dorsal fin.

The common human (Homo sapiens sapiens) is also an enemy of the narwhal, because humans hunt the narwhal for food and for its ivory. Powdered narwhal tusk used to be sold as "unicorn horn" and was thought to be a sort of cure-all medicine, even holding possibly magical properties. Obviously we now know those statements to be false. Still, there are communities in Norway and such that rely on narwhal meat, sinew, blubber, and tusk to survive. Answer #3 Eskimos, killer whales, and polar bears. polar bear
Polar bears, orcas, and Greenland sharks have been known to hunt narwhals, but their biggest predator is man.
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Scientists don't exactly know what narwhals eat. They think narwhals eat (from cutting a narwhal open) what looked likesquid, flatfish, and Greenland halibut, a type of fish. Scientists think they may catch their prey by making a loud noise that stuns the animal. Scientists know that the tusk is not used for hunting.
Narwhals eat squid, flatfish, shrimp, Arctic cod, rockfish, flounder, crab, Greenland halibut, And other marine animals. Scientists think they may catch their prey by making a loud noise that stuns the animal.

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The narwhal (Monodon monoceros) in captivity eat small rodents such as mice, rats, hamsters, etc. They also have a 50% chance of being extinct for being hunted for their tusks. There are very few of them today and live only in the coldest places in the poles. There reproduction has frighteningly decreased and it has been hard to keep the population going.
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Narwhals eat fish, squid, and other oceanic animals.

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Answer #1 Humans eat narwhals. Polar bears, sharks, killer whales and walruses eat them too! Answer #2 by Shabootaqay Orca whales are the narwhals' greatest natural predators. Narwhals avoid the orcas by staying in the cracks between glaciers in the winter. Orca whales are unable to stay there because they are too big to fit, and because they have dorsal fins, which hinder their ability to squeeze through tight spaces. The narwhal has no dorsal fin.

The common human (Homo sapiens sapiens) is also an enemy of the narwhal, because humans hunt the narwhal for food and for its ivory. Powdered narwhal tusk used to be sold as "unicorn horn" and was thought to be a sort of cure-all medicine, even holding possibly magical properties. Obviously we now know those statements to be false. Still, there are communities in Norway and such that rely on narwhal meat, sinew, blubber, and tusk to survive. Answer #3 Eskimos, killer whales, and polar bears. polar bear
Polar bears, orcas, and Greenland sharks have been known to hunt narwhals, but their biggest predator is man.
Polar bears and Walruses

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