Titanis

titanis was a predatory bird of the pliocene epoch of the modern cenozoic era. it hunted ground sloths glypodonts horses and toxodons. here's how you make an apex predator 1. hunting strategy if hunting a horse it'll have to get to the side and the peck at it with it's formidable beak. 2. intelligence it was an animal with a large brain having the ability to solve problems like how to kill a glyptodont which it put's it's foot under the glyptodont and then peck at it. 3. hearing it had a hearing ability that rivaled mammals able to hear multiple things at once. extinction it died out in the early pliesctocene because of competition with eutherian mammals and climate change it's habitat changed from grassland to icy wonderland and the uplift of the andes even further riding habitat of titanis.