A mesopredator is a predatory animal that occupies a mid-ranking trophic level in a food web, typically preying on smaller animals who are lower-level consumers, while itself being preyed upon by larger predators. There is no standard, concrete definition of a mesopredator, though mesopredators tend to be small to medium-sized carnivorous or omnivorous animals such as mustelids, canines or felines, often defined by contrast from the apex predators of a particular food web.