Why are herbivores and carnivores grouped under consumers?
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Herbivores are plant eating animals. Carnivores are animal eating animals. The plants and animals which are being eaten are the producers. As these herbivores and carnivores eat the producers, they are consumers.
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Because they (as well as parasites, detritivores, and decomposers) obtain their energy by consuming the energy-bearing nutrients other organisms (or their carcasses/detritus). All of these are also known as heterotrophs. Plants and other organisms that can synthesize their own energy-bearing nutrients are called autotrophs (producers).
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