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Coprophagia is defined as the consumption of its own or another's feces by an animal and is a common complaint of pet owners to their veterinarians.
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What are animals that kill and eat other animals called?
They are called "predators." They may be carnivores (eating meat) or omnivores (eating both plants and animals). The term carnivores includes scavengers, who do not kill their own prey but consume remnants from the prey of other animals. Some animals that are scavengers (coyotes, crows, vultures) are also predators or can become predatory.
An animal that's only eats plants are called?
Animals are classified into types based on their food types such as herbivores-eating only plants carnivore-eating other animals omnivore-herbivore+carnivore coprophagy-eating own faecal matter sanguivorous-feeding on blood...etc. So animals that feed only on plants are herbivores
What is it called when a carnivore eats another carnivore?
the circle of life. animals eat other animals all the time. these animals are called carnivores (meat eating animals). but if an animal ate one of it's own kind it's known as canibolism. Caniboles are animals that eat it's own kind. Ps. humans are animals.
Do all plants and animals make food?
Some animals feed exclusively on plants. They are called Herbivores. An example is a horse. Some animals feed exclusively on meat. They are called Carnivores. An example is a lion. Some animals eat both plant and animals. They are called Omnivores. An example is humans.
Is the komodo dragon an endangered species?
Because they are killing and eating all the animals on the island. So instead they are eating there own kind.
Why does the animals cannot make their own food?
animals don't have more thinking ability and also why they want to cook as they are eating raw.
What is it called when an animal eats one of its own - and don't say a cannibal since cannibalism means the eating of human flesh by another human being?
Cannibalism is actually for all animals-so it's called cannibalism.
How do animals carry on their activities?
Animals carry on their activities by eating organisms or making their own food to get energy. They then use this energy for their processes and activities.
Which animals help with ocean pollution?
All animals help in there own way. The one that helps the most is fish because of there eating habbits.
Organisms that obtain energy by taking in food are called?
heterotrophs
Animals that makes there own food?
animals don't make their own food neither do fungi but plants do.
How are different animals adapt to their own environment?
by eating wat they usually eat, sleeping where they usually sleep
