Animal Diets

  • Carnivore - Carnivores are animals that specialize in eating meat.  Carnivores generally eat mammals, birds, reptiles or other creatures
  • Herbivore - Herbivores are animals that specialize in eating plants.  Herbivores generally eat leaves, grasses, bark, fruit and other plant matter.
  • Insectivore - Insectivores are animals that specialize in eating insects and other small animals without backbones, such as spiders, scorpions, worms and slugs.
  • Omnivore - Omnivores are animals that eat both meat and plants.  This means they can change their diet to eat available foods. 
  • Piscivore - Piscivores are animals that specialize in eating fish.  Piscivores generally eat fish but may eat other aquatic animals such as shrimp, crabs and clams.

Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphins can dive more than 1,600 feet!