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Carnivores are animals that eat a diet consisting mostly of meat.
Also, the word could refer to the mammals of the Order Carnivora, many (but not all) of which fit the first definition.
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carnivores Term applied to a heterotroph, usually an animal, that eats other animals. Carnivores function as secondary, tertiary, or top consumers in food chains and food webs.
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Carnivores at the ends of long food chains (e.g., ospreys, pelicans, falcons, and eagles) once suffered serious declines in fecundity and hence in population size because of this.
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carnivores: animals that eat other animals.
carrying capacity: a situation when a population has reached the maximum size that the environment can support.
catabolism: the breakdown or digestion of large, complex molecules.
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List of Carnivores
Felines, ranging from domestic cats to lions, tigers, and other large predators.
Some canines, such the Grey wolf but not the Red wolf or coyote.
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The animals include small nocturnal (active at night) carnivores. The dominant animals are burrowers and kangaroo rats. There are also insects, arachnids, reptiles and birds.
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A member of the trophic level of an ecosystem consisting of carnivores that eat herbivores.
secondary growth
The increase in girth of the stems and roots of many plants, especially woody, perennial dicots.
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Arrow worms. Members of the phylum Chaetognatha, a group of planktonic carnivores
Asexual reproduction. Reproduction of the individual without the production of gametes and zygotes ...
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food chain A sequence of organisms in which plants are the primary food source for herbivores, which are in turn the food source for carnivores, etc., until the top carnivore level is reached.
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And normally we will sort it by major types, major functions, such as biomass of plants or biomass of herbivores or biomass of carnivores. And when I'm saying biomass, I mainly mean biomass of plants, which is what we focus most of our work on.
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of view, it is more efficient for humans to be primary consumers (to get nourishment from grains and vegetables) than as secondary consumers (from herbivores such as beef and veal), and more still than as a tertiary consumer (from eating carnivores).
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