EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -The tertiary consumer is also referred to as the apex predator. Such consumers typically exist at the very top of every ecological food chain. Moreover, a food chain usually consists of three types of consumers-primary, secondary, and tertiary consumers respectively.

Detailed explanation-2: -Tertiary consumers, which are sometimes also known as apex predators, are hypercarnivorous or omnivorous animals usually at the top of food chains, capable of feeding on both secondary consumers and primary consumers.

Detailed explanation-3: -Tertiary consumers are those that eats the secondary consumers (large predators). For example, owls that eat snakes.

Detailed explanation-4: -Secondary consumers are mostly carnivores, from the Latin words meaning “meat eater.” In the Everglades, egrets and alligators are carnivores. They eat only other animals. Most carnivores, called predators, hunt and kill other animals, but not all carnivores are predators.