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What eats secondary consumers?
The secondary consumers are the one which depend on primary consumers.Primary consumers: These are herbivores, like cattle, sheep , goat etc which feed on plant materials.secondary consumers: These depend upon primary consumers like tiger, lion, human, frogs etc.
Is a lion a secondary consumer or primary consumer?
Generally, no. Remember that tertiary level consumers must eat organisms which themselves would hunt (secondary level consumers). The diet of lions primarily consists of grazing animals such as gazelle, deer, zebras, etc. These are primary consumers (i.e. they eat plants), thus unless a lion eats a hunting animal (in rare instances, lions may hunt each other if food is scarce though this is the exception, not the rule) it is a secondary consumer.
What are secondary and primary consumers?
Primary consumers feed on producers (plants) and secondary consumers feed on primary consumers. For example, rabbits are primary consumers because they feed on vegetation. Foxes are secondary consumers because they feed on rabbits.
What does a raccoon represent in a food chain?
Raccoons are generally considered secondary consumers.
Are salmon primary or secondary consumers?
Salmon eat herring, minnows, etc. (primary consumers) herring and minnows eat plankton (primary consumers), therefore, salmon are secondary consumers.
Is a baboons a secondary consumer?
Baboons are primarily vegetarian, but display omnivorous tendencies. This means they are primary consumers as well as secondary consumers, because they eat plants and other animals.
Why are baboons sparrows and human beings considered both primary and secondary consumers?
because they all eat plants and meat
What would happen if there were no secondary consumers?
If there were no secondary consumers, the populations of primary consumers would explode and the world would be overrun with rodents, rabbits, etc.
Examples of secondary consumers?
Secondary consumers eat herbivores, which are primary consumers. An example of this would be a lion that eats a zebra. The zebra is a herbivore and so the lion is a secondary consumer. Almost all carnivores are secondary consumers.
Are all herbivores primary consumers?
Yes, a maple tree produces its own food and there for is a primary consumer, anything that eats the maple tree would be a secondary consumer.
Is herbivores is secondary consumer?
No, a secondary consumer is a carnivore (or omnivore). Herbivores are primary consumers, which are eaten by secondary consumers.
A sentence for secondary consumers?
Secondary consumers are herbivores that feed on primary consumers.
How are primary consumers different from secondary consumers?
primary consumers are herbivores and secondary consumers are carnivores so secondary consumers eat primary consumers
What are primary secondary and tertiary consumers in the tropical rain forest?
primary consumers are the consumers which feed upon the producers secondary consumers are the consumers which feed upon the primary consumers tertiary consumers are the consumers which feed upon the secondary consumers
What do consumers eat secondary consumers?
Secondary Consumers eat other primary consumers. Primary consumers eat plants or producers.
What a secondary consumers?
other secondary consumers. all animals that eat other animals are are secondary consumers. so I suppose we eat them.
Are garter snakes primary consumers or secondary consumers?
Like all snakes, they are secondary consumers.
