🌱 Ecology Curriculum

This animal eats the primary consumer.

Its job is to:

Eat other animals to get energy. These animals are predators.

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• Examples include a fox (which eats a rabbit) or a blue tit (which eats a caterpillar).
• These animals can be carnivores (meat-eaters) or omnivores (eat plants and meat).
• A food chain can have more links, like a 'tertiary consumer' that eats the secondary consumer (e.g., an owl eats a stoat, which ate a blue tit).