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because of the passing of energy from one animal to the other. Producers make 1000 energy from the sun. Then as the next animal eats it, like the grasshopper, the grasshopper gets only 100 energy from the plant it ate, and so one. There is less predators because the more the energy lost, the more that the for say, frogs have to eat more grasshoppers to get the same amount of energy that the grasshopper got from the grass. So larger predators have to try hard to eat more, so there is less because not many animals can eat enough of the other animals because of the loss of energy.

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