what are the special features of carnivorous that enable them to eat their prey ??
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Carnivorous Animals:
While it is generally known that carnivores are meat eaters, most people aren't sure of the exact characteristics that define these animals. If you're wondering what exactly a carnivorous animal is, you should know that it is an animal that fills its nutritional needs by consuming animal tissue, which means it eats other animals. We often forget that carnivorous animals eat amphibians, insects and other invertebrates as well as mammals, birds or fish. Not all carnivorous animals are hunters or predators, as some carnivores are scavengers.
Not all carnivores exclusively eat animal tissue either, as some of them supplement their diet in other ways. Moreover, not all animals that eat animal tissue are carnivores. Finally, not all carnivores are animals, as you can find carnivorous plants and fungi too.What is a carnivorous animal?
As we said before, a carnivorous animal consumes animal tissue - flesh, bones, organs - in order to feed and gain energy. Depending on the kind of animals and kind of tissue they eat, carnivores can be classified into types that include the following:
Avivores: consume birds
Insectivores: consume insects
Hematophages: consume blood
Ovivores: consume eggs
Piscivores: consume fish
Vermivore: consume worms
Not all carnivores feed the same way. Carnivores are also classified into two types depending on how they obtain or find their food:
Predators: a predatory animal hunts the prey it is going to consume. Most carnivorous animals kill their prey, but some carnivores, like mosquitoes, are grazers. While it seems logical that predators are usually bigger than their prey, some carnivores like lions, wolves, piranhas and ants are social predators that team up to bring down larger animals.
Scavengers: scavenger carnivores consume dead animal tissue. Finding carrion requires time and effort, and so only vultures are exclusively scavenger carnivores. Most scavengers combine scavenging with hunting, becoming opportunistic feeders.This means they hunt if they have to, but if they find already-killed prey they will take advantage of it. Some of these carnivores include coyotes, lions, lizards, bears and crows.
What kinds of carnivorous animals exist?
Carnivores are usually presented as the opposite of herbivores, or animals that eat an exclusively vegetable diet. However, as we said before, carnivorous animals do not necessarily eat only meat, and they often complement their diets with fungi, fruits, vegetables, nectar or other substances. This is not the case of obligate carnivores, the so-called true carnivores, whose reliance on animal tissue is almost total.
Obligate carnivores adapt to an exclusively carnivorous diet when their habitat - including its climate and geography - forces them to do so. For instance, unlike other bears, polar bears are obligate carnivores because there is no vegetation in their habitat.
Depending on the composition of their diet, carnivorous animals can be classified like this:
Hypercarnivores: Their diet consists of more than 70% meat. Examples include cats, eagles, salmon, sharks and owls.
Mesocarnivores: Their diet consists of 50-70% meat, and they have evolved different kinds of teeth to consume different types of organic matter. Examples include badgers, dogs, ferrets, foxes and weasels.
Hypocarnivores: Their diet consists of less than 30% meat, the rest being anything from fruits and fungi to nectar. Since their teeth fulfill different functions, including chewing hard vegetables, their molar teeth are wider and flatter. Most hypocarnivorous animals are considered omnivores. Examples of such omnivorous animals include black bears and us humans.
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Answer: The amount of acid in their stomach
Explanation: carnivores can eat raw meat because of the amount of acid in their stomach's. Almost 10 times more than a herbivore!