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Gross! In the Food Web the Caribbean Flamingo is able to act as the primary consumer or the secondary consumer. If it feeds on algae or any plant material, it is acting as a primary consumer because it is feeding on something that can produce its own food by photosynthesis.
Sample answers: Primary consumers: cows, rabbits, tadpoles, ants, zooplankton, mice. Secondary consumers: frogs, small fish, krill, spiders. Tertiary consumers: snakes, raccoons, foxes, fish. Quaternary consumers: wolves, sharks, coyotes, hawks, bobcats.
Tertiary Consumer – Animals that eat secondary consumers ie carnivores that feed on other carnivores. Scavenger – a consumer that eats dead animals (e.g. crab, crow, vulture, buzzard and hyena. )
Bears and skunks are examples of omnivorous secondary consumers that both hunt prey and eat plants.
The primary consumers are herbivores (vegetarians). The organisms that eat the primary consumers are meat eaters (carnivores) and are called the secondary consumers….Life on the Food Chain.
Trophic Level | Secondary Consumer (Carnivore) |
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Desert Biome | Lizard |
Grassland Biome | Mouse |
Pond Biome | Minnow |
Ocean Biome | Fish |
These animals eat primary consumers. Some of these are large predators such as lions, wolves, crocodiles, and eagles.
Levels of the food chain Primary consumers are herbivores, feeding on plants. Caterpillars, insects, grasshoppers, termites and hummingbirds are all examples of primary consumers because they only eat autotrophs (plants). Omnivores, who feed on both plants and animals, can also be considered as secondary consumer.
noun, plural: secondary consumers. Any organism that consumes or feeds largely on primary consumers, as well as autotrophs. Supplement. A food chain is a feeding hierarchy showing the various trophic levels.