Lions are secondary consumers and feed mostly on primary consumers such as zebras.
tertiary consumers
Tertiary Consumers: The diets of tertiary consumers may include animals from both the primary and secondary trophic levels. Like secondary consumers, their diet may also include some plants. Examples of tertiary consumers include Hawks, Alligators and Coyotes. Hawks feed on small mammals, lizards and snakes.
Secondary consumers are animals that feed on primary consumers, such as mice, rats, rabbits, squirrels, deer, etc. Foxes, wolves, lions and tigers are secondary consumers.
Lions are secondary consumers because they eat other animals, who are usually herbavores. Herbavores are primary consumers because they consume producers, or vegetation. Vegetation is considered a producer because it relies directly on the sun to produce their food. The primary consumers then eat the vegetation. Because the lions eat herbavores, who consume the vegetation, they in turn also rely on the sun. They are secondary consumers because they eat the animals that eat the vegetation.
what is a quaternary consumer:The Quaternary consumer is the predator that eats the Tertiary consumer. This is an example of the order a food chain goes in:Grass - Grasshopper - Rat - Snake - Hawk - HumanGrass is the Producer and is eaten by the Primary consumer.Grasshopper is the Primary consumer and is eaten by the Secondary consumer.Rat is the Secondary consumer and is eaten by the Tertiary consumer.Snake is the Tertiary consumer and is eaten by the Quaternary consumer.Hawk is the Quaternary consumer and is the apex predator at the top of the food chain.
In any ecosystem, tertiary consumers are at the top of the food web. They eat small animals like rats, fish, frogs, and small reptiles. Tertiary consumers include jackals, hawks, leopards, lions, and tigers.
Lions are secondary consumers. They feed on primary consumers.
A lion can be a tertiary consumer or a secondary consumer.
Generally, no. Remember that tertiary level consumers must eat organisms which themselves would hunt (secondary level consumers). The diet of lions primarily consists of grazing animals such as gazelle, deer, zebras, etc. These are primary consumers (i.e. they eat plants), thus unless a lion eats a hunting animal (in rare instances, lions may hunt each other if food is scarce though this is the exception, not the rule) it is a secondary consumer.
Tertiary Consumers: The diets of tertiary consumers may include animals from both the primary and secondary trophic levels. Like secondary consumers, their diet may also include some plants. Examples of tertiary consumers include Hawks, Alligators and Coyotes. Hawks feed on small mammals, lizards and snakes.
On the plains of Africa, the lions are the primary carnivore.
Lions are secondary consumers, they prey mostly on primary consumers.
lions are in fact not producers, but heterotrophs. In their natural environment they are tertiary consumers, which means that they are on top of the food chain and consume everything below it, such as primary consumers.
A secondary consumer would eat a primary consumer/other consumers. They would be carnivores.
Secondary consumers are animals that feed on primary consumers, such as mice, rats, rabbits, squirrels, deer, etc. Foxes, wolves, lions and tigers are secondary consumers.
Herbivore
Lions are secondary consumers because they eat other animals, who are usually herbavores. Herbavores are primary consumers because they consume producers, or vegetation. Vegetation is considered a producer because it relies directly on the sun to produce their food. The primary consumers then eat the vegetation. Because the lions eat herbavores, who consume the vegetation, they in turn also rely on the sun. They are secondary consumers because they eat the animals that eat the vegetation.
Examples of secondary consumers are; lions, dogs and foxes.Plants are producers (they make their own food). Primary consumers eat producers - these are also called herbivores. Secondary consumers eat primary consumers - these are also called carnivores.