NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Sheep, deer, giraffes, camels, and cattle are all ruminants. Some herbivores eat any plant matter they can find. Elephants, for example, eat bark, leaves, small branches, roots, grasses, and fruit. Black rhinoceroses also eat a variety of fruits, branches, and leaves.

Detailed explanation-2: -Food chain Carnivores in turn consume herbivores for the same reason, while omnivores can obtain their nutrients from either plants or animals. Due to a herbivore’s ability to survive solely on tough and fibrous plant matter, they are termed the primary consumers in the food cycle (chain).

Detailed explanation-3: -Herbivores are animals that eat only plants. Carnivores are animals that eat only meat. Omnivores are animals that eat both plants and meat. The size of an animal does not determine what it eats.

Detailed explanation-4: -What is herbivory? Herbivory is the act of eating plants. Herbivory occurs above and below ground. Herbivores may eat any part of the plant above the soil including leaves, stems, flowers, fruit and any part of the plant below the soil including roots and tubers.