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Rabbits are primary consumers because they consume plants. Plants are primary producers - storing energy from the sun as they grow. Rabbits consume the plants and so are the first animal in the chain from primary producer through to predator and decomposer organisms.

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A secondary consumer is an animal in the food chain that eats smaller, plant eating animals. A cat in the wild will eat mice, birds etc and other small vegetarian animals and so it fits the definition of a secondary consumer.

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