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What are carnivorous marsupials that eat insects and small vertebrate found in Australia known as?
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Carnivorous marsupials are known as dasyurids.
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What are three mammals that eat insects?
Australia has many mammals (most of which are marsupials) that eat insects. They include:numbatsechidnas (a monotreme, not a marsupial)possums and glidersdunnartsplanigalesphascogales
Do marsupials eat meat?
Whilst most of the commonly known marsupials such as kangaroos, koalas, wallabies and wombats are herbivorous, there is a large group of carnivorous marsupials, known as Dasyurids. The dasyurid marsupials include the Tasmanian Devil, Quoll (various species), and marsupial mice including the Dunnart, Phascogale and Antechinus. The Thylacine (also known as the Tasmanian Tiger), extinct since 1936, was also carnivorous.
Are black birds carnivorous?
The common blackbird is omnivorous. They eati: insects, earthworms, seeds and berries
Are worms vertebrate insects?
No; they aren't neither vertebrates or insects.
What Australian marsupials eat insects?
Australian marsupials which eat insects as part of their diet include:bandicootsmarsupial moleskowarismulgarasantechinusesdibblerskalutaskultarrsplanigalesdunnartsphascogales
What insects are vertebrate?
No insects are vertebrates.
Do devils eat plants?
No. The natural instinct of Tasmanian devils is to be carnivorous. They are dasyurids, meaning they belong to the group of marsupials which are carnivorous. They eat live game up to the size of a wallaby, birds and reptiles, insects, and scavenge on carrion (the bodies of dead animals).
Do Tasmanian devils eat plants?
No. The natural instinct of Tasmanian devils is to be carnivorous. They are dasyurids, meaning they belong to the group of marsupials which are carnivorous. They eat live game up to the size of a wallaby, birds and reptiles, insects, and scavenge on carrion (the bodies of dead animals).
What is a ningaui's diet?
Ningauis are members of the dasyurid family, i.e. the carnivorous marsupials. Being one of the smallest marsupials, its diet consists primarily of insects and invertebrates, but its favoured food is desert centipedes and cockroaches, even though they may be larger than the ningaui itself.
Is a stink bug a vertebrate?
No. All bugs are insects and insects do not have a backbone. To be a vertebrate the animal MUST HAVE a backbone.
Are insects an vertebrate?
No. Vertebrates have spines and insects have exoskeletons.
Do crickets have a vertebrate?
they are insects not mammals
