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Herbivores
This category covers questions about herbivores, organisms that obtain energy from a diet of mainly, or exclusively, autotrophs (producers). Generally, herbivores are known as primary consumers. Herbivores often survive more easily than carnivores (secondary consumers).
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Is a roaster herbivores omnivores or carnivores?
A roaster is a herbivore because it eats most of its food from the ground.
What is one herbivore on a grassland?
One herbivore commonly found on grasslands is the zebra. Zebras graze on grasses and other plants as their main source of food.
Are hornets herbivores omnivores or carnivores?
Hornets are carnivores, meaning they primarily feed on other insects for sustenance. They prey on a variety of insects such as caterpillars, bees, spiders, and other small creatures.
Is a eucalyptus tree a herbivore carnivore or omnivore?
A eucalyptus tree is a plant that produces its own food through photosynthesis. It is neither a herbivore, carnivore, nor omnivore, as it does not consume other organisms for its nutrition.
Is the frilled shark a carnivore or a herbivore?
It feeds mainly on cephalopods, leavened by bony fishes and other sharks so its a carnivore.
Are meadow larks carnivore omnivore or herbivore?
meadowlarks have a varied diet, specializing in insects in the summer; switching to seeds in the winter. since omnivores have to eat both meat and plants to be classified as an omnivore, i would consider the meadowlark as just a herbivore since insect-eaters are not necessarily classified as carnivores.
Another word for the word herbivore would be vegan or vegetarian. You could even say plant eater, green eater, or non carnivorous.
Are whelks carnivores herbivores or omnivores?
A whelk is an animal. The word whelk actually refers to many different kinds of sea snails. Many of the snails are eaten by humans.
Plants are producers not consumers therefore they are not herbivores because herbivores are plant eaters
Are hawks herbivores or omnivores?
Hawks are carnivores (meat eaters). They are Birds of Prey.
strictly carnivore.
Is a grub a carnivore herbivore or an omnivore?
Grubs are herbivores as they feed on the roots of plants, decaying vegetation, and other such organisms. You can find grubs living at the base of many types of vegetative plants.
Is the mandrill a carnivore ominvior or a herbivore?
Yes,
A mandrill is part of the primate order and therefor it is a mammal, just like humans, dolphins and elephants.
Is a butterfly a herbivore a carnivore an omnivore or a detritivore?
Grasshoppers prefer leaves, grass, wheat, and other grains, making them herbivores. However, some varieties of the insect are omnivores. Detritivores eat dead organic, plants, which do not appeal to grasshoppers.
Are budgies herbivore carnivore or omnivore?
Budgies or Budgerigars are also known as the common pet parakeet. Budgie is their informal nickname. They are birds and like all parakeets eat seeds, fruits, insects and berries. Because they eat both plants, but also eat insects, which are technically a meat, these birds are omnivores, but if you have one as a pet it is much easier to feed them seeds, fruits and berries.
In their native habitat of Australia they eat bark, local insects, local flowers such as thistles and fruits.
If you have a Budgerigar as a pet they should be fed with good quality, commercially available pellet food. You can also give them fruits and raw vegetables (in small quantities and once ever few days or they will get diarrhea. Such include apples, sweet potato, salad cress, grated carrot, grapes, pumpkin, winter squash, broccoli, parsley, spinach, mango and papaya.
For more on what Budgies eat and what to feed them check out the list of books mentioned below and the links in the sources section. All books can be found at any local library in the Pet or Animal section.
Arthur, C P. Budgerigars and Cockatiels: How to Keep, Feed and Breed Them. England: s.n, 2011. Print.
Birmelin, I. Budgerigars: Everything About Purchase, Care, Nutrition, Behavior, and Training. Hauppauge, NY: Barron's, 1998. Print.
Niemann, Hildegard, and Oliver Giel. Budgerigars: Everything About Purchase, Care, Nutrition, Behavior, and Training. Hauppauge, N.Y: Barron's, 2008. Print.
Is a raven a carnevore herbivore or omnivore?
Like all members of the family Corvidae, ravens are omnivores. Corvids include besides ravens, crows and jays.
Is an ant herbivores carnivores omnivores or scavengers?
unless there is some vegetarian species of ants out there, all ants eat other small creatures. such as grasshoppers, slugs, and bees. they can even take down crabs by crawling into the joints on the eyes knees and elbows and eat it from the inside out.
