Animal Lives Animals face many challenges in their lives From the moment they are old enough to look after themselves they have to work hard to survive They must search for food They need to escape from hungry predators They have to find or make safe homes so they can shelter from the weather and hide from danger When they become adults animals must attract mates so they can have young Some animals travel to faraway breeding grounds to have their young After they hatch or are born many young need to be protected and cared for until they too are old enough to survive on their own One of the challenges that a corkwing wrasse faces is to search for food such as shrimp to
Food and Feeding All animals must find obtain and eat food An animal needs to eat food to stay alive and grow The first thing the animal needs to do is to find the right type of food and then it needs to get the food Getting the food can be difficult because most plants and animals do not want to be eaten Did You Know Different Types of Foods Different animals eat different types of foods Some animals known as herbivores eat plants or plant foods such as fruits and nuts Some animals known as carnivores hunt kill and eat other animals Omnivores are animals that eat both plant and animal foods In this book you will find out about I snakes that swallow animals that are larger than their own heads I rogs that gobble their relatives bats that sip the blood of the living I beetles that eat dung A hornbill is a herbivore that searches rain forest treetops for fruits to
Diagram Food Web Southern Ocean Food Web In a Southern Ocean food web tiny floating plants called phytoplankton make food using energy from the Sun Some animals eat the phytoplankton and some animals eat other animals such as krill Krill P Krill eat phytoplankton Fish eat krill Blue whales eat krill Emperor penguins eat krill Squid eat krill Squid Squid eat fish Killer whales eat squid Blue whale
A food web shows what different animals in a community eat Key Sun is eaten by Phytoplankton Energy from the sun P Emperor penguins eat fish Fish Emperor penguin Killer whales eat Emperor penguins eat squid emperor penguins Killer whales eat fish Killer whale Killer whales eat blue whales
