obligate carnivore

Examples of obligate carnivore in the following topics:

• 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.

• 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.

• Liabilities

  • Examples of long-term liabilities include long-term bonds, leases, pension obligations, and debentures.
  • A transaction or event obligating the entity that has already occurred
  • Liabilities in financial accounting need not be legally enforceable, but can be based on equitable obligations or constructive obligations.
  • An equitable obligation is a duty based on ethical or moral considerations.
  • A constructive obligation is an obligation that is implied by a set of circumstances in a particular situation, as opposed to a contractually based obligation.

• 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.

• Defining Liabilities

  • A liability is defined as an obligation of an entity arising from past transactions/events and settled through the transfer of assets.
  • In financial accounting, a liability is defined as an obligation of an entity arising from past transactions or events, the settlement of which may result in the transfer or use of assets, provision of services or other yielding of economic benefits in the future.
  • A duty or responsibility that obligates the entity to another, leaving it little or no discretion to avoid settlement.
  • A transaction or event that has already occurred and which obligates the entity.
  • Long-term liabilities have maturity dates that extend past one year, such as bonds payable and pension obligations.

• Liquidity Ratios

  • Liquidity ratios measure how quickly assets can be turned into cash in order to pay the company's short-term obligations.
  • X's Acid Test Ratio = 1,000 / 1,000 = 1, which means that it can pay off short-term obligations.
  • A low liquidity ratio means a firm may struggle to pay short-term obligations.
  • Low values for the current or quick ratios (values less than 1) indicate that a firm may have difficulty meeting current obligations.
  • If an organization has good long-term prospects, it may be able to borrow against those prospects to meet current obligations.

• 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.

• 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.

• Defining Financial Leverage

  • Financial leverage, in a corporate finance sense, exists when a company finances assets and internal operations through fixed obligations.
  • Financial leverage is the financing of assets and internal operations with fixed obligations.
  • Examples of these types of obligations include debt and preferred stock.
  • As a company uses more financial leverage, higher levels of operating income are needed to cover the additional fixed obligations (interest on debt and fixed dividends on preferred stock).

• Genome Reduction

  • A common explanation for these keen manipulative abilities is the compact and efficient genomic structure consistently found in obligate endosymbionts.
  • In fact, as much as 90% of the genetic material can be lost when a species makes the evolutionary transition from a free-living to obligate intracellular lifestyle.
  • One obligate endosymbiont of psyllid, Candidatus Carsonella ruddii, has the smallest genome currently known among cellular organisms at 160kb.
  • It is important to note, however, that some obligate intracellular species have positive fitness effects on their hosts.
  • The reductive evolution model has been proposed as an effort to define the genomic commonalities seen in all obligate endosymbionts.