Animals are classified into three categories
on their eating habit. They are the herbivores, carnivores and omnivores. An
herbivore is an animal that gets its energy from eating plants. Many herbivores
have special digestive systems that let them digest all kinds of plants,
including grasses. Examples of these animals are elephants, cows and sheep. A
carnivore is an animal that gets food from killing and eating other animals.
Carnivores generally eat herbivores but can eat omnivores and occasionally
other carnivores. Animals that eat other animals, like carnivores and omnivores
are important to any ecosystem, because they keep other species from getting
overpopulated. Examples of these animals are leopards, fox and tigers. An
omnivore is a kind of animal that eats either other animals or plants. Some
omnivores will hunt and eat their food, like carnivores eating herbivores and
other omnivores Omnivores eat plants such as fruits and vegetables. Examples of
these animals are bear, dogs and chicken.
Defination of Animals Eat Different Food
HERBIVORE
An herbivore is
an animal that gets its energy from eating plants. Herbivores need a lot of
energy to stay alive. Many of them, like cows and sheep, eat all day long.
There should be a lot of plants in your ecosystem to support your herbivores.
Video Clip Cow
CARNIVORES
A carnivore is an animal that gets food from killing and eating
other animals. Carnivores generally eat herbivores but can eat omnivores and
occasionally other carnivores. An obligate or true carnivore is
an animal that subsists on a diet consisting only of meat. They may
consume other products presented to them, especially animal products like
cheese and bone marrow, or sweet sugary substances like honey and syrup, but,
as these products are not essential, they do not need to consume these on a
regular basis. True carnivores lack the physiology required for the efficient
digestion of vegetable matter, and in fact some carnivorous mammals eat
vegetation specifically as an emetic. Domesticated carnivores are often
recommended to have vegetable supplements (or such containing processed pet
foods) as meats designed for human consumption may be lacking in vital
nutrients.
Video Clip of Lion
Eat
OMNIVORE
An omnivore is a kind of animal that eats either other animals or
plants. Some omnivores will hunt and eat their food. Many will eat eggs from
other animals. Omnivores eat plants, but not all kinds of plants. Unlike herbivores
omnivores can't digest some of the substances in grains or other plants that do
not produce fruit. They can eat fruits and vegetables, though. Some of the
insect omnivores in this simulation are pollinators, which are very important
to the life cycle of some kinds of plants.
Omnivore
