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2. Consumer (food chain) - Wikipedia

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   Within an ecological food chain, consumers are categorized into primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers. [3] Primary consumers are herbivores, feeding on plants or algae. Caterpillars, insects, grasshoppers, termites and hummingbirds are all examples of primary consumers because they only eat autotrophs (plants).

3. Herbivore - Wikipedia

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   Herbivores form an important link in the food chain because they consume plants to digest the carbohydrates photosynthetically produced by a plant. Carnivores in turn consume herbivores for the same reason, while omnivores can obtain their nutrients from either plants or animals. Due to a herbivore's ability to survive solely on tough and ...

4. Omnivore - Wikipedia

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   This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 November 2024. Animal that can eat and survive on both plants and animals This article is about the biological concept. For the record label, see Omnivore Recordings. Examples of omnivores. From left to right: humans, dogs, pigs, channel catfish, American crows, gravel ant Among birds, the hooded crow ...

5. List of feeding behaviours - Wikipedia

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   Circular dendrogram of feeding behaviours A mosquito drinking blood (hematophagy) from a human (note the droplet of plasma being expelled as a waste) A rosy boa eating a mouse whole A red kangaroo eating grass The robberfly is an insectivore, shown here having grabbed a leaf beetle An American robin eating a worm Hummingbirds primarily drink nectar A krill filter feeding A Myrmicaria brunnea ...

6. List of carnivorans - Wikipedia

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   Various carnivorans, with feliforms to the left, and caniforms to the right. Carnivora is an order of placental mammals that have specialized in primarily eating flesh. Members of this order are called carnivorans, or colloquially carnivores, though the term more properly refers to any meat-eating organisms, and some carnivoran species are omnivores or herbivores.

7. Energy flow (ecology) - Wikipedia

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   This energy in the herbivores and omnivores is then consumed by carnivores. There is also a large amount of energy that is in primary production and ends up being waste or litter, referred to as detritus. The detrital food chain includes a large amount of microbes, macroinvertebrates, meiofauna, fungi, and bacteria.

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9. Monogastric - Wikipedia

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   Furthermore, there are monogastric carnivores such as cats. [1] A monogastric organism is contrasted with ruminant organisms (which have four-chambered complex stomachs), such as cattle, goats, and sheep. Herbivores with monogastric digestion can digest cellulose in their diets by way of symbiotic gut bacteria. However, their ability to extract ...