Diet can tell us if the animal is an omnivore, carnivore, or a herbivore. You can also see where the animal has been and where it lives.(environment). Diet also shows how the animal has evolved.- An owl
for example: in the U.S Barn Owls eat small rodents, such as mice, voles, field rats, pocket gophers, and moles. Sometimes they eat crayfish, large insects, small birds, and other small mammals. However, their main diet is mice.
In the UK, amphibians, reptiles, insects, birds, bats, rabbits and carrion are not generally eaten by Barn Owls and earth worms are not eaten at all. However, unusual cases have been recorded where Barn Owls haveeaten a large number of frogs or small birds in winter. Cannabalism in Barn Owl nests has been recorded but is unusual. - There are many different types of bears that live in different regions which results in a change in the bears diet.
- For example, the Black Bear's diet usually consists of grasses, leaves, buds, flowers, mushrooms, berries & other fruits, nuts, including acorns,insects, and other things found in the forest.
- The Polar Bear's diet usaully consists of seals & fish.
The Grizzly Bear's diet usually consists of plants, berries, fish, honey, meat.
- Although most sharks live in the ocean most of them have all evolved differently because of their habitats.
- Great White: Eats a variety of fishes and marine mammals. Fish such as salmon, hake, halibut, mackerel and tunas are common prey, as are marine mammals such as harbor porpoises and harbor seals. However whites also eat other sharks, sea turtles and seabirds. They may also feed upon blubber from dead whale carcasses.
- Sand Tiger Shark:Diet consists mainly of large and small bony fish, small sharks, rays, squid and crustaceans.
- Mako Shark: feeds mainly upon bony fishes including mackerels, tunas, bonitos and swordfish, but may also eat other sharks, porpoises and sea turtles.
