Wednesday, February 13, 2013

CLASSIFYING ANIMALS ACCORDING TO THE FOOD THEY EAT










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`          “A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.” 
― Leo Tolstoy
( February 14, 2013 )

           Animals need food to survive. There are animals that eat plants only. Some eat flesh of other animals only. Other eats both plants and flesh of animals.

Herbivores 


Animals that only eat plant.
Herbivore is the anglicized form of a modern Latin coinage, herbivora, cited in Charles Lyell‘s 1830 Principles of Geology.[1] Richard Owen employed the anglicized term in an 1854 work on fossil teeth and skeletons.[1] Herbivora is derived from the Latin herba meaning a small plant or herb,[2] and vora, from vorare, to eat or devour.[3]
A herbivore is an animal that gets its energy from eating plants, and only plants. Omnivores can also eat parts of plants, but generally only the fruits and vegetables produced by fruit-bearing plants. Many herbivores have special digestive systems that let them digest all kinds of plants, including grasses.

Carnivores 


Some animals eat only other animals.
carnivore (pron.: /ˈkɑrnɪvɔər/) meaning ‘meat eater’ (Latincarne meaning ‘flesh’ and vorare meaning ‘to devour’) is an organism that derives its energy and nutrient requirements from a diet consisting mainly or exclusively of animal tissue, whether through predation orscavenging.[1][2] Animals that depend solely on animal flesh for their nutrient requirements are considered obligate carnivores while those that also consume non-animal food are considered facultative carnivores.[2] Omnivores also consume both animal and non-animal food, and apart from the more general definition, there is no clearly defined ratio of plant to animal material that would distinguish a facultative carnivore from an omnivore, or an omnivore from a facultative herbivore, for that matter.[3] A carnivore that sits at the top of the foodchain is an apex predator.
Omnivores often are opportunistic, general feeders with neither carnivore nor herbivore specializations for acquiring or processing food, and are capable of consuming and do consume both animal protein and vegetation.[2] Many omnivores depend on a suitable mix of animal and plant food for long-term good health and reproduction.
Since carnivores have to hunt down and kill other animals they require a large amount of calories. This means that they have to eat many other animals over the course of the year. The bigger the carnivore, the more it has to eat. You should make sure that you have many more herbivores and omnivores than carnivores.

Omnivores 



Some animals eat only other animals.
An Omnivore, meaning ‘all-eater’ (Latin omnivorare: “all, everything”, “to devour”), is a polyphage (“many foods“) species that is a consumer of a variety of material as significant food sources in their natural diet. These foods may include plantsanimalsalgae and fungi.[1]

Animals that eat both plants and animals. You eat plants when you eat fruits, vegetable, rice and corn. Likewise you eat eggs, meat, milk, cheese which comes from animals. Thus, humans and some animals like cats and dogs are omnivors
Omnivores often are opportunistic, general feeders with neither carnivore nor herbivore specializations for acquiring or processing food, and are capable of consuming and do consume both animal protein and vegetation.[2] Many omnivores depend on a suitable mix of animal and plant food for long-term good health and reproduction.
Omnivores eat plants, but not all kinds of plants. Unlike herbivores, omnivores can’t digest some of the substances in grains or other plants that do not produce fruit. They can eat fruits and vegetables, though. Some of the insect omnivores in this simulation are pollinators, which are very important to the life cycle of some kinds of plants.
Herbivores
Carnivores
Omnivores
cows
haws
cats
carabao
owls
dogs
goats
crocodiles
human
horses
snakes
Bear
bees
sharks
chicken
butterfly
lion
Pigs 
rabbit
tigers
rat

References:
http://5thanimals.wikispaces.com/animal+omnivores
Science for Daily Use Textbook.