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Hunted carnivores at outsized risk.

In their Report “The unique ecology of human predators” (21 August, p. [858][1]), C. T. Darimont et al. explain that human predation pressure is considerably higher on large carnivores compared with other faunal groups. Evolutionarily speaking, the high predation pressure exerted by humans is a

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