Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-7823447-20130611192127/@comment-11462520-20130702134547

Vulpimancers ARE sapient. Homo Erectus barely used to talk. They were hunters, almost instintive animals, but the fact is that they were sapient in the way that they created weapons and used tools. They're primitive, but intelligent.

Is the same thing for Wildmutt's species. As Max said in the original series, "Vulpimancers don't talk too much, not even with the ones of their own kind". Talk, TALK. Comunication at an intelligible level is a sign of sapience. Other way, if they were non sapient as some people say they are, the user of the omnitrix would suffer of adverse effects when turning into a vulpimancer, because sapient mind is not able to handle the instintive, brutal behaviour of a beast-like creature (as happened to the first human that dr psychobos used to probe the nemetrix).

Anyway, the fact that they're sapient doesn't mean that they aren't predators, and the same way, it doesn't mean that they couldn't have predators, too. Is a typical thropic chain: you hunt your food, but others hunt you for food.