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Second Order Consumer

A Second Order Consumer is a consumer in a food chain that consumes the First Order Consumers. They in turn can be consumed by a Third Order Consumer and so on.


In our ecology a second order consumer would be birds, small mammals, and small or medium sized fish.

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