The hyenas think they are “dangling at the bottom of the food chain”. This is an exaggeration, but
they are lower than lions
. Everything in this world is focused on who is higher on the food chain: who is eating who and who is being eaten by whom. The hyenas need Scar to bring them food.
Who says no wonder were at the bottom of the food chain in The lion King?
No wonder we're dangling at the bottom of the food chain!
Banzai
: [a string of drool dangles from his chin] Man, I hate dangling…
What is at the bottom of the food chain?
Producers
, who make their own food using photosynthesis or chemosynthesis, make up the bottom of the trophic pyramid. Primary consumers, mostly herbivores, exist at the next level, and secondary and tertiary consumers, omnivores and carnivores, follow.
What type of consumer are hyenas?
Tertiary consumers
include hyenas, which feed on nearly any type of meat (dead or alive) and are considered to also be scavengers.
What role do hyenas play in the food chain?
Hyenas are often thought of as
scavengers
, but are also traditional carnivores. A lone hyena feeds mostly on dead animals. Hyenas may consume an animal that has died of injuries, or it may steal meat from another carnivore, such as a lion.
What are the 2 main food webs on earth?
There are two types of food chains: the grazing food chain, beginning with autotrophs, and
the detrital food chain
, beginning with dead organic matter (Smith & Smith 2009).
What is food chain and example?
The definition of a food chain is a system where a small animal is the food for a larger animal which, in turn, is the food for an even larger animal. An example of food chain is
a fly being eaten by a frog
and then the frog is eaten by a larger animal.
Which animal is a secondary consumer?
Spiders, snakes, and seals
are all examples of carnivorous secondary consumers. Omnivores are the other type of secondary consumer. They eat both plant and animal materials for energy. Bears and skunks are examples of omnivorous secondary consumers that both hunt prey and eat plants.
What animal is a primary consumer?
Primary Consumer – Animals that consume only plant matter. They are
herbivores
– eg rabbits, caterpillars, cows, sheep, and deer.
Are Wolves secondary consumers?
Wolves are categorized as
either secondary or tertiary consumers
. However, in many food chains, wolves are apex predators.
What animals do hyenas interact with?
The bigger the hyena clan, the larger its prey. This can include young rhinos,
adult wildebeest, zebras, and Cape buffalo
. The hyenas work in a group when hunting such large prey, and young hyenas take years to become successful. Smaller packs chase down gazelles, impalas, warthogs, and waterbucks.
What animals eat leftovers?
Scavengers
are animals that consume dead organisms that have died from causes other than predation or have been killed by other predators.
What animals are called scavengers?
Examples of scavengers include
hyenas, jackals, opossums, vultures, crows, crabs, lobsters and cockroaches
.
What is the correct food chain?
The process of transfer of energy from producers through a series of organisms, i.e., from primary consumers to secondary consumers and from secondary consumers to tertiary consumers by process of eating and being eaten constitute a food chain. The correct food chain is
phytoplankton >> zooplankton >> fish.
What trophic level is shrimp?
The shrimp also eat
primary producers
. Primary consumers are in turn eaten by secondary consumers, which are typically small fish. … As the food web above shows, some species can eat organisms from more than one trophic level. For example, opossum shrimp eat both primary producers and primary consumers.
Where do humans fall on the food chain?
Humans are said to be
at the top of the food chain
because they eat plants and animals of all kinds but are not eaten consistently by any animals. The human food chain starts with plants. Plants eaten by humans are called fruits and vegetables, and when they eat these plants, humans are primary consumers.
