secondary consumer meaning in Hindi

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1. Secondary consumers, on the other hand, are mainly carnivores, and prey on other animals.
2. Omnivores, who feed on both plants and animals, can also be considered a secondary consumer.
3. This means they really belong to the third trophic level, secondary consumers, along with the forage fish.
4. Within an ecological food chain, consumers are categorized into three groups : primary consumers, secondary consumers, and the tertiary consumers.
5. Then come the primary consumers, such as grasshoppers, voles and bison, followed by the secondary consumers, shrews, hawks and small cats.
6. Secondary consumers are a type of carnivore, but there are also tertiary consumers eating these carnivores, quartary consumers eating them, and so forth.
7. In above ground food webs, energy moves from producers ( plants ) to primary consumers ( herbivores ) and then to secondary consumers ( predators ).
8. Tertiary consumers, sometimes also known as apex predators, are usually at the top of food chains, capable of feeding on secondary consumers and primary consumers.
9. Therefore, primary consumers get about 10 % of the energy produced by autotrophs, while secondary consumers get 1 % and tertiary consumers get 0.1 %.
10. Since humans consume fish rather than phytoplankton, they are considered a secondary consumer, and are at high risk of lead poisoning from fish taken from contaminated lakes.