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Definitions of carnivores on the Web:
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. www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookglossC.html
Animals that feed on other animals or material of animal origin. www.ecifm.rdg.ac.uk/glossary.htm
Organisms that mainly prey upon animals. highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0070294267/student_view0/glossary_a-d.html
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Animals and a few plants that consume dead or living animal food. museum.gov.ns.ca/mnh/nature/nhns2/glossary.htm
carnivores feed strictly on meat www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow6/feb99/terms1.html
The category of animals that prey or feed upon animals and insects. (carni-, flesh; vore-, eater) www.dfr.state.nc.us/stewardship/wwwildlife/www13.htm
Meat eaters www.promotega.org/uga30006/Vocabulary.htm
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are flesh-eating animals, like lions. www.teachervision.fen.com/page/5485.html
These are animals and mammals that eat other animals and mammals, also called ‘flesh-eaters’; see ‘food chain’ www.recycle4schools.org.uk/ecodict_c.htm
Animals that have meat as the main part of their diet. www.tictoc.co.uk/Phase3/Resource/glossary.html
Carnivores are animals that eat a diet consisting mostly of meat. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivores
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Definitions of symbiosis on the Web:
A mutually beneficial association of two different kinds of organisms. www.planthealthcare.com/terms.html
To live together; a condition in which two animals, two plants, or a plant and an animal live in partnership. The relationship can be that of commensalism, where one organism benefits from activities of the other; parasitism, where one organism lives on another to the detriment of its host; or mutualism, where both organisms benefit from the association. www.fish.washington.edu/naturemapping/mollusks/glossary.html
the living together of unlike organisms in a close, long-lasting association. www.anbg.gov.au/glossary/webpubl/lichglos.htm
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The intimate living together of two dissimilar organisms in a mutually beneficial relationship. www.visionlearning.com/library/pop_glossary_term.php
An interactive association between two or more species living together; may be parasitic, commensal, or mutualistic. The relationship between two organisms. www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookglossS.html