• Bakachu@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Great explanation of the concept of a food web. Grew up only knowing the food chain as well. Still kind of fuzzy on the rules for direction with certain animal pairs and whether it’s based on predation capability or something else.

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      1 year ago

      After I saw the video of the horse eating the chick I just gave up on trying to understand it

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        1 year ago

        Yep saw that one and another with a deer eating a bird. So I think there’s new categories for animals now too on what they eat. Instead of carnivores, omnivores, and herbivores. There’s obligate carnivores and opportunistic carnivores. Apparently even pandas would kill for some protein if given the opportunity.

        Gonna be a 3-D food web once we get all the new science rules settled.