Sometimes vitamins & minerals are not adequately absorbed by the body. When they pass through, animals will eat leavings to gain these nutrients their bodies are lacking.
A hermit Crab would eat the dead fish leavings and what a sharks meal has left behind. Also, these animals are decomposers so they eat what is left behind from other meals of other animals who have been lucky enough to eat.
WARNING: DO NOT EAT TILAPIA! TILAPIA CONTAIN A DIET OF OTHER FISH LEAVINGS (POO) WARNING: DO NOT EAT TILAPIA!TILAPIA CONTAIN A DIET OF OTHER FISH LEAVINGS (POO)
Animals that eat both plants and animals are called omnivores.
Boston Terriers may eat their own feces due to a variety of reasons such as boredom, seeking attention, nutritional deficiencies, or copying a behavior they witnessed. This behavior, known as coprophagia, should be discouraged through training and providing a balanced diet to prevent any health issues.
Brown, Black, and Grizzly bears will eat their own babies.
Yes they all do.
Animals
Animals will eat their own children sometimes because either the offspring has a deficiency that could harm the group, or because they know that they can't take care of the children.
Snakes eat prey animals that are relative to their own size. The larger the snake - the larger meal it needs for it to survive.
They die on their own and the animals eat them and the rest decomposes, or humans.
All animals eat other living things, either plants or other animals. The only living things that make their own food are plants.
they eat shelled sea animals by throwing up their own stomach to catch the prey