carnivore
(noun)
any animal that eats meat as the main part of its diet
Examples of carnivore in the following topics:
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Herbivores, Omnivores, and Carnivores
- Animals can be carnivores, herbivores, or omnivores in their eating strategies.
- Carnivores are animals that eat other animals.
- Obligate carnivores are those that rely entirely on animal flesh to obtain their nutrients; examples of obligate carnivores are members of the cat family.
- Note that there is no clear line that differentiates facultative carnivores from omnivores; dogs would be considered facultative carnivores.
- Carnivores such as the (a) lion eat primarily meat.
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Class Scyphozoa
- Scyphozoans are free-swimming, polymorphic, dioecious, and carnivorous cnidarians with a prominent medusa morphology.
- Scyphozoans live most of their life cycle as free-swimming, solitary carnivores.
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Food Chains and Food Webs
- Secondary consumers are usually carnivores that eat the primary consumers, while tertiary consumers are carnivores that eat other carnivores.
- As an example, a grazing food web has plants or other photosynthetic organisms at its base, followed by herbivores and various carnivores.
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Modern Reptiles
- Most lizards are carnivorous, but some large species, such as iguanas, are herbivores.
- All snakes are carnivorous, eating small animals, birds, eggs, fish, and insects.
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Evolution of Mammals
- Throughout the Permian period, the synapsids included the dominant carnivores and several important herbivores.
- Later in the Mesozoic, after theropod dinosaurs replaced rauisuchians as the dominant carnivores, mammals spread into other ecological niches.
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Post-Cambrian Evolution and Mass Extinctions
- Plants died, herbivores and carnivores starved, and the mostly cold-blooded dinosaurs ceded their dominance of the landscape to more warm-blooded mammals.
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The Role of Energy and Metabolism
- Carnivores eat the herbivores, and decomposers digest plant and animal matter.
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The Purpose and Process of Photosynthesis
- Carnivores eat other animals and herbivores eat plants.
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Characteristics of the Animal Kingdom
- As heterotrophs, animals may be carnivores, herbivores, omnivores, or parasites .
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Characteristics and Evolution of Amphibians
- All extant adult amphibians are carnivorous.