herdivore food chain

[sarah0130]

[wildwood]

Indeed! Didn't you like your correct spelling in the previous question?

Herbivores dwell in a remarkably short food chain. They do not predate on other animals and are usually only preyed upon by top predators.

Having said that ...... I have heard that cattle may annually consume as much as 10lb of insects that live on the grass the eat.

[ChuckFickens]

herdivore, like a herbivore but there's more of them.

[rowanwitch]

You could be a real smartipants and go back to the previous gang of herbivores prodiucing manure to feed the grass The herbivore food cycle,

[dundurn]

Actually, the previous chain was a bit light on the detail. Cowpats do not lead directly to grass. Indeed grass finds it remarkably difficult to force its way past all that herbivore/herdivore poo, not to mention all the poo produced by the carnivores and omnivores feeding on the herbivores/herdivores. Scarab and other burying beetles and bacteria do the tiresome task of clearing away and converting the poo into nutrients which can lead to the next crop of grass.