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  • Food Chains: What Eats Herbivores? Understanding Trophic Levels
    This question has a bit of a trick answer! Here's why:

    * Food Chains and Webs: Organisms are connected in food chains and food webs. A herbivore is an animal that eats plants.

    * The Next Level: The organism "above" a herbivore in a food chain is a carnivore (an animal that eats other animals). A carnivore that eats herbivores is called a primary carnivore.

    * It's More Complicated: Food webs are more complex. There are also omnivores (animals that eat both plants and animals), decomposers (organisms that break down dead matter), and scavengers (animals that eat dead animals).

    So, there isn't a single organism "above" a herbivore. It depends on the specific food chain or web you're looking at!

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