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Identify the type of consumer: The frog feeding on an insect.


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Secondary consumer:

  1. The frog is considered to be a secondary consumer because it depends upon the primary consumer for its food like insects.
  2. Primary consumers are the ones who depend upon autotrophs or the producers for their food like herbivores.
  3. Secondary are the ones that depend upon the producers for their survival, they can be the carnivores or the omnivores.
  4. Whereas tertiary consumers depend upon both primary and secondary consumers for their survival.


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