NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The primary consumer is prey and the secondary consumer is the predator. But predator can become prey. This is the strange but amazing frogfish. Nothing else eats frogfish apart from sometimes other frogfish!

Detailed explanation-2: -Predators kill and eat other organisms, so the predator of the producer is the primary consumer and the predator of primary consumer is the secondary consumer.

Detailed explanation-3: -Types of Secondary Consumers Some secondary consumers are large predators, but even the smaller ones often eat herbivores bigger than they are in order to get enough energy. Spiders, snakes, and seals are all examples of carnivorous secondary consumers. Omnivores are the other type of secondary consumer.

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.