Analysis of their fossils suggests that the animals were indeed small, bipedal predators.
It was a small predator only 40 cm long.
If there was sufficient warning, the smaller predators could sometimes be scared away by shouts and screams.
The red fox and stoat are the most common of the smaller predators.
Horses had been known to wound or kill full- grown attacking wolves and could easily make short work of so small a predator.
They are small, active predators, long and slender with short legs.
The miacis lived 50 to 60 million years ago and was probably a small omnivorous predator.
It's not just the predators, large and small.
This has not yet been found to apply to smaller predators of small mammals.
They are easy targets for hawks, cats, foxes, or any other small predator.