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Name one organism for primary consumers.

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The consumers are those organisms that depend on other organisms for food and nutrition. Primary consumers are those that depend on the producers i.e., plants for food and nutrition.
Examples of herbivores like deer, rabbits, grasshoppers, etc.

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