Scifi authors making some kind of point with their Ultra Apex Predator scale-hided smilodon-fanged neurotoxic hyperintelligent scifi species should consider that if they put more than three of them in a confined space with open flames and basic time pressure they'd all end up dead
My pseudoscience bugbear is the idea that humans are some kind of inherent prey animal whose brain isn't wired to be the world's apex predator. No dude me and my ability to have One Hundred Friends could kill every elephant on earth