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They eat plants or animals (or both) and the breathe with lungs (or gills in the case of fish). A vertebrate is any animal with a backbone. People dogs cats, cows, fish, monkeys, whales, dolphins, frogs, gerbils, bats and so on.

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Vertebrates are consumers in the food chain. Herbivores are primary consumers, feeding on plants, where carnivores are secondary consumers, feeding on herbivores for energy.

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  • they get it by REPRODUCING!!
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Q: How do vertebrates obtain food and oxygen?
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