Secondary Consumer

A secondary consumer is a consumer that eats a primary consumer. Even though a secondary consumer eats a primary one, a secondary consumer is usually an omnivore. An omnivore is an animal that eats both plants and animals. Other bigger fish would probably eat the clown, halfmoon, and the opaleye fish. Thus, these predators are secondary consumers. Whales could be eaten by killer whales, so killer whales are a secondary consumer. Since sea gulls eat crabs, you can probably guess what sea gulls are: secondary consumers. If there aren't any secondary consumers in the food chain, many problems would happen. First of all, the amount of primary consumers would increase, and would be unregulated. Because of this, overgrazing would occur to the producers. Overgrazing is when producers are eaten to an extent that the producer would not be able to grow again. Once overgrazing happens, the primary consumers would slowly decline and would be feasted upon by the scavengers. The scavengers then would start to diminish in number, and would become extinct. The carcasses are then decomposed by the decomposer. Soon enough, the carcasses to be decomposed would run out, and the decomposers would soon die and become extinct.