What is a 3rd level consumer called?

Answer 1

A tertiary consumer is an animal that eats secondary consumers (which are carnivores).

For example:

Grasshoppers are primary consumers (herbivores) because they eat grass.

Rats are secondary consumers (carnivores) because they eat grasshoppers.

Snakes are tertiary consumers because they eat rats.

Answer 2

It is a carnivore at the topmost level in a food chain that feeds on animals at all trophic levels. They can also be called scavengers.

Answer 3

Third-order consumer examples: Polar Bear, Golden Eagle, Nile Crocodile Example: the Nile Crocodile eats a lion, which had eaten a Wildebeest, which had been feeding on grass.

Answer 4

carnivorous consumer such as an owl that feeds directly on second-order consumers such as snakes

Answer 5

A 3rd level consumer is called a tertiary consumer

Answer 6

A tertiary consumer is a carnivore at the topmost level in a food chain that feeds on other carnivores; an animal that feeds only on secondary consumers.

Answer 7

tertiary consumer

Answer 8

hawks, owls, eagles, wolves, etc.