How Do Predators Catch Their Prey?

Predators generally have specialized body parts for catching and eating prey.

Raptors have large eyes, a curved, sharp beak, and sharp talons that make it a very efficient predator. Most frogs and toads have long sticky tongues. Scorpions and some snakes inject their prey with venom to paralyze or kill their prey before eating. For example, rattlesnakes and vipers, in general, bite and inject venom into their prey using venom glands in their mouths. Then they let go of their prey, preventing it from scratching the eyes or face of the snake. The mouse escapes for the moment but, as the venom kicks in, develops odd behaviors, including washing their face with secretions from certain facial glands. How does the snake find the prey after its died? By cuing in on the smell from of the mouse's facial secretion.

Sharks have extremely sharp teeth, but have nothing other than their mouth with which to hold onto prey. To prevent damage to their eyes and face by a large flailing prey item sharks have been known to bite and release the prey, and then come in a second or third time to bite until the prey is dead.