EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Carnivorous predators kill and eat their prey. They include large animals such as the lion and tiger. Each carnivore has its own mode of feeding, from sea otters feeding on sea stars to blue whales feeding on zooplankton and small marine animals.

Detailed explanation-2: -A carnivore is an organism that mostly eats meat, or the flesh of animals. Sometimes carnivores are called predators. Organisms that carnivores hunt are called prey. Carnivores are a major part of the food web, a description of which organisms eat which other organisms in the wild.

Detailed explanation-3: -But sometimes the predator population overwhelms the prey to the point of devastating the prey population, subsequently resulting in a devastation of the predator population. Some studies indicate that the roles of each may become reversed to the point that prey begin to eat the predators.

Detailed explanation-4: -Weasels, hawks, wolves, mountain lions, and grizzly bears are all predators. Predators are carnivores, which means their diet consists of meat. Some predators, such as coyotes and bears, are also scavengers, meaning they will eat the carcasses of animals that they didn’t hunt themselves.

Detailed explanation-5: -Whether it is a roadrunner swallowing a lizard, a blue crab eating a fish, an American Egret catching a perch, a shark investigating a surface disturbance that could be a meal, or a man rounding up a cow for slaughter, the predator kills to provide food for itself or its family.