Yes some species of cacti are food for animals.
Cacti can be eaten by certain animals such as deer, rabbits, and some insects. However, most animals avoid eating cacti due to their spines and bitter taste.
Few cacti offer animals an easy meal as most are covered by dense spines. However, prickly pear cacti are often eaten by tortoises, javelina, antelope, deer, rabbits, hares and some small rodents as well as some insects.
There are few animals that will eat most cacti as many are unpalatable and contain hallucinogenics. The prickly pear, however, is eaten by such animals as rabbits, hares, tortoises, deer and javelina.
Some owls make their homes in cacti.
To discourage animals from eating them.
The desert tortoise, javelina and deer will eat prickly pear cacti.
In the desert, animals like desert tortoises, rabbits, and insects eat cacti. This impacts the ecosystem by controlling cacti population growth and providing food for other animals in the food chain.
They are spiky to stop animals eating them
they arnt
Cacti occasionally suffer from the pressures of drought and other animals. Birds and mammals try to get the water from the cacti so THEY can survive. This is why cacti have thorns.
Cacti are pollinated by the animals so that why they need animals tto help them in pollination
Very meagre, mostly cacti or other animals that they can catch.