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because they eat different types of food, eg sheep and wolfs will have different teeth because wolves need sharp teeth to tear through meat and sheep need blunt teeth to chomp on grass

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They need teeth to chew bite and tear food and one type of teeth can not do all 3.

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So they can do the different things that different animals need to do.

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