carnivore
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A carnivore is an animal that eats meat from other animals to meet its nutritional needs. Some carnivores, like lions, are "obligate carnivores" that rely entirely on animal flesh and cannot survive on other types of food.
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14 sectionsContents
- Nomenclature
- Mammal order
- Carnivorous diet
- Subcategories of carnivory
- Obligate carnivores
- Characteristics of carnivores
- Prehistory of carnivory
- Proterozoic origin
- Paleozoic
- Mesozoic
- Cenozoic
- See also
- References
- Further reading
thumb|Lion|Lions are obligate carnivores, since they consume only animal flesh for their nutritional requirements.
A carnivore , or meat-eater (Latin, caro, genitive carnis, meaning meat or flesh and vorare meaning "to devour"), is an animal or plant whose nutrition and energy requirements are met by consumption of animal tissues (mainly muscle, fat and other soft tissues) as food, whether through predation or scavenging.