Question

why tertiary consumers are also called top carnivorous​

Answer 1

Answer:Tertiary consumers often occupy the top trophic level, and so are predated by no other animals; in this case they are called “apex predators”. However, when they die their bodies will be consumed by scavengers and decomposers. Sometimes in a food chain there is an apex predator above the tertiary consumer

Answer 2

Answer:

the tertiary consumers are called top carnivores because, they are at top of the hierarchy and no animal can hunt them, so they are top carnivores animals