Literally, the only difference is one is less willing to accept the risk of getting caught and facing punishment.
They'll be sneaky about it, so they can say she wanted it or claim innocence.
But you're right. The predation is in the thinking, strategy, and the entitlement as much as it is the actual actions.
Nearly all the tropes around male sexuality are described through the lens of an animal predator. "Men pursue because they were the hunters" for example, not "Men seek women for balance" or "Men are instinctually driven to hold space for women because women benefit their lives", etc. Both kinds of statements say the same thing. That men are attracted to women. But that first one frames the attraction in a predatory way. The other examples do not. The relate male sexuality to a symbiot or a deer.