برچسب: primates

Carnivorous animals only eat meat and lives on other animals in order to consume sufficient amounts of nutrients and energy. Their diets consist largely of animal tissue accessed through predation or hunting. Animals that are dependable on animal flesh alone to meet their nutrient and energy requirements are called obligate carnivores, while others that consume non-animal sourced foods are called facultative carnivores. Carnivorous animals consume both animal and non-animal sourced foods. The other, smaller species is the pygmy hippopotamus, which is …