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probably because plants cant move to catch proper pray or cant fit a deer in its mouth if it even had one. the difference between them is that plants make their own food ( photosynthesis ), and animals have to get it, or find it

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plants absorb food from the ground where as animals catch and eat their food through their mouths.

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