answersLogoWhite

0


Best Answer

An animal or plant that obtains nutrients from animals is a carnivore.

User Avatar

Wiki User

14y ago
This answer is:
User Avatar

Add your answer:

Earn +20 pts
Q: What animal or plant consumes or obtains nutrientsfrom animals?
Write your answer...
Submit
Still have questions?
magnify glass
imp
Related questions

An animal or plant that consumes or obtains nutrients from animals?

A predator-consumer needs another animal or plant to survive. However, the food chain never ends; one animal preys on another and so on.


Are there animals that aren't consumers?

Every species of animal consumes something.


What animals consume mosquitoes?

the animal that consumes mosquitos it the fly catcher


What kind of animal is a carivore?

A carnivore is an animal that consumes meat. A herbivore is an animal that consumes plant. An omnivore is a mixture of the previous two.


What animal that eats dead animals without hunting?

An animal that consumes dead animals would be a detrivore; however, there are decomposers like bacteria and fungi that also utilize dead organic material for an energy source.


What does obtains food by mean?

How does the animal get food?


What are animals that consume both plants and animals?

An animal that consumes both plant matter and animal flesh is called an omnivore


Is animals alive?

Yes, an animal is alive. It breathes; it reproduces; it consumes, digests and eliminates, and it grows. These are what living things do, that "inanimate" things cannot.


What does crayfish are omnivores mean?

A crayfish is an omnivore. An omnivore is an animal which eats both plants and animals. (Compared to a carnivore or herbivore which consumes both)


What is a heteretroph?

An organism that cannot manufacture its own food and instead obtains its food and energy by taking in organic substances, usually plant or animal matter. All animals, protozoans, fungi, and most bacteria are heterotrophs.


An animal that kills and eats another animal?

Energy is derived from food. So any animal that kills and eats another obtains energy. Such as lions, tigers, bears dogs, cats, they are all know as carnivores, flesh eating mammals


What animal consumes plants and animals for food?

The answer to that it is a consumer or a carnivore.This animal has to be at least a secondary consumer, but can also be a tertiary consumer, etc... or a scavenger.