In any ecosystem, tertiary consumers are at the top of the food web. They eat small animals like rats, fish, frogs, and small reptiles. Tertiary consumers include jackals, hawks, leopards, lions, and tigers.
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Since tertiary consumers are the animals that eat the primary consumers, they would have to be carnivorous. So a jaguar would be a great example. Anything that gets it's energy from a consumer would be a tertiary consumer.
There are a lot of animals that are considered secondary consumers, such as parrots, monkeys, etc.
Lions are secondary consumers and feed mostly on primary consumers such as zebras.
Secondary consumers are eaten by tertiary consumers - animals that eat other carnivores.
Primary consumers in tropical dry forests are typically herbivores that feed on plants and fruits. Some examples include insects, rodents, and birds that rely on the vegetation available in these ecosystems. These primary consumers play a crucial role in energy transfer within the food chain by consuming producers and serving as a food source for secondary consumers.
Tertiary consumers
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