Carnivores are animals that eat a diet consisting mostly of meat.
Also, the word could refer to the mammals of the Order Carnivora, many (but not all) of which fit the first definition.
carnivores Term applied to a heterotroph, usually an animal, that eats other animals. Carnivores function as secondary, tertiary, or top consumers in food chains and food webs.
Carnivores that eat insects and similar invertebrates primarily or exclusively are called insectivores, while those that eat fish primarily or exclusively are called piscivores.
Carnivores at the ends of long food chains (e.g., ospreys, pelicans, falcons, and eagles) once suffered serious declines in fecundity and hence in population size because of this.
The remaining saurishian dinosaurs were theropods, the bipedal carnivores exemplified by Allosaurus. Deciphering the evolutionary relationships of the theropods is difficult due to the often fragmentary nature of theropod fossils.
Energy is then passed to primary consumers (herbivores) and on to secondary and tertiary consumers (carnivores and top carnivores) (e.g. phytoplankton -> zooplankton -> herring -> salmon -> killer whales).
carnivore -- Literally, an organism that eats meat. Most carnivores are animals, but a few fungi, plants, and protists are as well.
carpel -- A unit of the pistil; it is evolutionarily a modified leaf.
A member of the trophic level of an ecosystem consisting of carnivores that eat herbivores.
secondary growth
The increase in girth of the stems and roots of many plants, especially woody, perennial dicots.
Arrow worms. Members of the phylum Chaetognatha, a group of planktonic carnivores
Asexual reproduction. Reproduction of the individual without the production of gametes and zygotes ...
food chain A sequence of organisms in which plants are the primary food source for herbivores, which are in turn the food source for carnivores, etc., until the top carnivore level is reached.
And normally we will sort it by major types, major functions, such as biomass of plants or biomass of herbivores or biomass of carnivores. And when I'm saying biomass, I mainly mean biomass of plants, which is what we focus most of our work on.
Carnivores
Rodents
Lagomorphs (rabbits & hares)
Condylarths (first hoofed animals)
Cetaceans (whales & dolphins)
Perissodactyls (horses, rhinos, tapirs)
Elephants
Sirenians (dugongs & manatees) ...
 See also: Carnivore, Species, Organ, Plant, Animal
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