A new study has suggested that humans are destructive super-predators. Humans are affecting the ecosystem by their killing skills. As super-predators, humans have a habit of killing mature animals in high extent, according to the study.

Increasing population of humans increases demand and advanced technology have allowed humans to hunt animals on land and in water. According to study researchers, hunting of adult animals can affect their survival prospects. Humans' hunting techniques are different from animals. The study showed that humans' hunting rate is higher than other top predators in the world.

Advanced weapons and techniques to kill animals have reduced the risks linked to hunting and allowed us to kill a prey from a relatively safe distance, the researchers said. Some earlier studies showed humans' roles, direct or indirect, in a species' extinction. The new study was not focused on how humans pushed animals to the brink of extinction, and compared humans' hunting pattern with of nonhuman predators' hunting pattern.

Chris Darimont, an ecologist at the University from Victoria in British Columbia and lead author of the new study, said, "On land, humans are the only predators who turn large carnivores into prey".

The study published in Friday's issue of the journal Science found that humans around the world kill animals at an average annual pace about nine times higher than average annual pace of other predators. Humans kill approximately 18% population of the carnivore while carnivores kill just 2% of their population every year.