Food Chain Consumers Animals

Examples of primary consumers are zooplankton butterflies rabbits giraffes pandas and elephants.
Food chain consumers animals. The surgeonfish a member of this group mows down the turf algae to a healthy level. Animals are called consumers as they eat plants and other animals and are further up the food chain. Herbivores eat the first level organisms and are included in the primary consumers group. For example if there was a shortage of fish for penguins to eat penguins would survive less well reducing the food supply for animals further up the food chain.
Consumers are animals of an ecological food chain that consumes other organisms. Consumers are typically viewed as predatory animals such as meat eaters. Their food source is the first trophic level of organisms within the food web or plants. However herbivorous animals and parasitic fungi are also consumers.
There are 3 groups of consumers. This is because they cannot make their own food so they need toconsume eat plants and or animals. So you and i are a major part of the food chain consume both plants and animals to produce energy in our bodies. Let us further explore the categories of consumers.
Primary consumers are herbivores. Consumers consist of four categories. If one part of a food chain is reduced or changes the whole food chain is affected. Sea urchins some crab species sponges and even the large green sea turtle are primary consumers.
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