Animals and their Food Habits
Animals and their Food Habits: Overview
This topic discusses the food habits of animals. We will learn how different animals eat different types of food, with the help of illustrative pictures.
Important Questions on Animals and their Food Habits
We see different types of animals around us. Which animals eat only plants? Are there any animals that do not eat plants but eat only other animals? What does house lizard eat?
Minko, the monkey is hosting a party. She has invited-Sheru, the tiger; Baloo, the bear; Slimy, the snake; Geroo, the gorilla; Hathi, the elephant; Proudy, the peacock.
What should Minko serve each of her friends? Choose from the list.
Name some herbivores animals.
Differentiate carnivores, herbivores and omnivores from the given set of animals.
Bears are omnivores that live in the same forests as tigers.
What is an omnivore?
Look at the pictures and answer the following question.
Which animal could be an omnivore? Say why.
Look at the pictures and answer the following question.
Which animals are prey for these predators?
Look at the pictures and answer the following question.
Which animals are predators?
Look at the pictures and answer the following question.
Name the two consumers that eat plants.
Look at the pictures and answer the following question.
What do we call consumers that eat only plants?
From the list of living things in a bracket below, answer the following question:
(tiger, palm tree. snail, crocodile, rice plant, cow, person)
Which consumer do you think is an omnivore? Say why.
From the list of living things given in the bracket below, which of the living organisms are carnivores?
(tiger, palm tree, snail, crocodile, rice plant, cow, person)
Which of the living things are carnivores?
From the list of living things in a bracket below, answer the following question:
(tiger, palm tree. snail, crocodile, rice plant, cow, person)
Which of the living things are herbivores?
Can a herbivore be a predator? Say why or why not.
What is the difference between predators and prey? Give an example.
Make a list of animals that ruminate. Find their pictures.
Write the name of four herbivorous animals?
Observe the below images carefully and answer the question:
Group the animals shown according to their feeding habit in the given table:
| Herbivores | Carnivores | Omnivores |
Why do different animals need different kinds of teeth?
Find eight animals in the word grid.
