That’s why the concept of food chain is phased out in favor of food webs which can more accurately model relationships.

They are after humans in the food web.

The food web is directed but not acyclic, meaning that arrows can point in a loop.

An example of a directed, acyclic “web” (technically a graph), would he books being published that quote other, previously published books.

Another is (ideally) the library dependencies of a codebase. If you end up with a loop in your dependency graph your package manager will probably fail.

An example of a non-directed graph is the covid contact data that our phones were collecting if we opted in during the pandemic. If I was close to you, you were close to me. It basically means if we drew you and I as dots on paper, it would be a line connecting us not an arrow.

The food web is directed (there is the eater and the eaten) but not acyclic. I can eat a bear, and the bear can eat me, which would be represented not as one line, but as two arrows pointing to and fro.

Mosquitoes, no. Polarbears, absolutely. If it’s brown, lie down, if it’s black, fight back, but if it’s white, fuck you your death was premeditated and the bear has every intention to kill you no matter what.