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Carnivore

Carnivore

(Science: zoology) An organism that eats animals. Terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal; terrestrial carnivores have four or five clawed digits on each limb.Any animal that feeds on flesh; Tyrannosaurus Rex was a large carnivore; insectivorous plants are considered carnivores.An animal that has a staple diet of meat and thus preys on other animals


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