Omnivorous animals

All animals according to the degree of fodder specialization are divided into two types - stenophagous (feed on one food or close in composition forage) and euriphages (omnivores).

Omnivorous means the ability of animals to use in writing the widest range of products and organisms: plants, mushrooms, other animals.

Omnivorous animals (eurifagi) live mainly in the cold and temperate zones of the northern hemisphere. The harsh conditions of nature forced these animals in the course of evolution to change their type of food in such a way as to adapt to survival in the cold, the conditions for changing seasons and the periodicity of the appearance of certain groups of food. So, in the summer they had to eat plants, in winter hunt for other animals. As a result, they are accustomed to changing the diet, choosing the most suitable food for themselves, depending on who forces them to this circumstance. These animals are very much, much more than one might imagine.

This group includes completely different animals. These include, for example, brown bear, pig, hedgehog, badger, raccoon dog, squirrel, wild boar, gray rat, mouse, rat, gray crow and many others. They are all characterized by a mixed type of food and are therefore called the term "omnivores". Examples can be continued.

In addition to the above, this group includes some species of primates, including chimpanzees. Different birds travel berries and nectar, simultaneously with insects, worms, fish and small rodents (chickens, crows and others). Individual species of lizards, turtles, fish (piranhas) are also omnivorous. Some species of omnivores are capable of eating even carrion.

Make a list for a given combination of "omnivorous animals" list is quite difficult, because they are very many and they are able to change the type of food. For example, chimpanzees, whose DNA is 99% consistent with ours, eat mainly fruits, seeds and nuts, animal food in their diet is only 5%. However, there are cases when they hunted not only ants, birds and some species of small mammals, but even other primates (baboons, monkeys, half-eagled galago, colobus, potto).

All organisms that belong to the same food group belong to the same trophic level (first, second, etc.). Omnivorous animals are immediately related to several trophic levels, their participation in each is determined by the composition of their diet.

The concepts of "carnivorous" and "herbivorous" (zoophagous and phytophagous) often prove to be rather conventional when studying more closely the many species of animals. Most predators sometimes eat fruits, and herbivores - insects and eggs of birds.

Many eurifagi (bear, badger, wild boar, marten, fox and others) are able to periodically change the groups of food they consume. This is a forced adaptation to life in conditions with an unstable fodder base.

Omnivorous animals consume both plant and animal food. From this point of view, a person, by biological definition, also belongs to this group. This is fully confirmed by his anatomy and physiology. A person can successfully eat even raw meat, rather successfully digesting it (examples: the people of the North eat raw fish and meat in fresh, frozen and dry form, Japanese also eat raw fish and raw seafood, Italians traditionally like to eat carpaccio, etc.)

Omnivorous animals have an intermediate mindset, they are quite circumspect and calm, like herbivores, and at the same time are able to be active in search of prey, like predators (carnivores). They are able to memorize information useful to them about the environment and reproduce it if necessary, they know how to get to food or find a safe hiding place.

To judge what the animal feeds primarily, it is possible by the peculiarities of the structure of its jaws.