predatory animal vs brute

predatory animal and brute both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
predatory animal	Yes	No	No	No
brute	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, brute is a hypernym of predatory animal; that is, brute is a word with a broader meaning than predatory animal:

Other hypernyms of predatory animal include animal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna.

predatory animal (noun)	brute (noun)
any animal that lives by preying on other animals	a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
	a cruelly rapacious person

predatory animal (adjective)	brute (adjective)
	resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility