Chapter Forty-One: Animal Nutrition
Preface
Nutrition: Food being taken in , taken apart, and taken up (Example: Bear chews skin muscles and other part of fish, breaking it down with acid and enzymes in digestive system and finally absorbing it into small molecules in its body)
Animals eat other organisms (dead or alive) for energy and also the organic molecules used to assemble new molecules, cells and tissues. There are different types of animal diets;
Herbivores: Animals that dine on mainly plants and algae (cattle, sea slugs, termites)
Carnivores: Animals that dine on other animals (sharks, hawks,spiders)
Omnivores: Animals which consume both plants and animals regularly (humans, crows, and cockroaches)