Question

Define the term omnivores.Explain with examples

Answer 1

An omnivore is an organism that can feed on both plant and animal sources.

Example;
Dogs,Bears
Humans: Humans have a wide range of diets, from completely herbivorous to almost entirely carnivorous, but most humans eat some amount of both meat and plants.

• Pigs Pigs are often used to study human digestion because of how similar their gut is to ours. Pigs can eat a wide variety of plant an animal materials. Pigs have been known to eat carcasses as scavengers, but are rarely predators, unless they are digging up small insects.
• Crows: Many large birds are scavengers, and will eat whatever they can find. Crows can subsist on stores of grain, small insects, and carrion.
• Ants: Ants are some of the smallest omnivores. Ants typically harvest plant material as food, but will easily convert an intruder to the colony into dinner as well.
• Badgers: Much like bears, badgers also hibernate, and eat a variety of plants, insects, and small animals to gain weight.
• Chipmunks: Though consisting of a diet mostly of nuts, chipmunks will often eat a variety of animals, including insects, crabs, frogs, worms and bird eggs.
• Mice: Mice are often opportunistic feeders, eating anything they can find.
• Opossums: The only North American marsupial mammal, being an omnivore has allowed the opossum to spread from South America. The opossum occupies a similar niche to raccoons, subsisting on carrion and the left-overs from human civilization.
• Chimpanzees: Chimpanzees have been found to hunt and eat small animals, in addition to their mainly plant-based diet.
• Chickens: Chickens eat a variety of insects, but will also eat small rodents, other birds, and eggs. However, a chicken can also subsist only on grains and plant material.
• Turtles: Many turtles, both aquatic and terrestrial will eat plants, fish, and insects, according to what they can catch.
• Lizards: Although many lizards feed only on insects, many feed only on plants, and there are some that feed on both.