EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -The three diets of animals include creatures that eat only plants, those that eat only meat, and animals that eat both plants and meat. Animals that eat plants exclusively are herbivores, and animals that eat only meat are carnivores. When animals eat both plants and meat, they are called omnivores.

Detailed explanation-2: -Herbivores animals have broad, flat and short, teeth to grind and chew plant leaves, grains, and seeds. Carnivores animals possess long, sharp, and curved incisors and canines to tear flesh. Their saliva has digestive enzymes. Their saliva does not have digestive enzymes.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -Hint: Herbivores eat only plant or plant products like sheep, cow, goat, etc. Carnivores are those who can eat animals only, for example lions, tigers, etc. Omnivores are those who eat both plants and animals, for example dogs, cats, and human beings.

Detailed explanation-5: -Carnivores do eat plant material, but not the actual plants. They achieve this by eating the stomachs and intestines of their prey. The plant matter there is predigested, which allows the carnivore access to the nutrition in the plants the prey animal has eaten.