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In food chains, the 'producers' are plants, who convert the energy from the sun into food through photosynthesis. A primary consumer is an animal who eats plants as food, and a secondary consumer is an animal who preys upon a primary consumer. A tertiary consumer will hunt other predators too.

A weasel's main prey would be grass and seed-eating primary consumers, such as rodents and rabbits, but they do not prey on other carnivorous mammals. So that is why the weasel is a secondary consumer.

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