Examples of secondary consumer

• Omnivores, who feed on both plants and animals, can also be considered a secondary consumer.

• A predator to zooplankton and fish, the ringed seal is considered a primary consumer as well as a secondary consumer.

• Secondary consumers, those animals that feed on fallen fruits or seeds, can influence counts of remains.

• Primary production provides for all trophic members as it provides energy to primary consumers that in turn provide energy to secondary consumers and so forth.

• It is one of the top ten most abundant secondary consumers in the system and the most important predator of commercially important prawn species.

• Then come the primary consumers, such as grasshoppers, voles and bison, followed by the secondary consumers, shrews, hawks and small cats.

• This means they really belong to the third trophic level, secondary consumers, along with the forage fish.

• Foxes eat rabbits at the second trophic level, so they are secondary consumers.