2006-10-01 19:05:53 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Probably a rainforest ant eater that eats thousands of different ant species daily. Or a blue whale whose baleen absorbs all kinds of small animals. Or a stingray that kills people who didn't need to be killed.
2006-10-01 19:16:56 · answer #1 · answered by laxeroflax04 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The lady bird is the most revenous carnivore on the planet eating the equivilent of a lion eating about 100 sheep in a day but it only eats aphids.
But the carnivore that would eat the greatest number it could be anything cat, whale, shark.
2006-10-02 07:19:52 · answer #2 · answered by jayden_012 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great Horned Owl has a diet of 253 types of prey species. The honey badger eats 60 types of prey species. Human are not carnivores. Humans are omnivores. Human eat mainly three types of animals: pigs, cattle, and chicken. Occasionally some other species like turkey or several species of fish or other seafood, but not regularly.
2006-10-02 23:55:05 · answer #3 · answered by Professor Armitage 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man is an omnivore, not just a carnivore.
So are dogs, pigs, bears, etc.
The carnivore that eats more species should be one that lives in a very diversed environment.
I'd say the LION as king of the forest/savanna to be probably the one that eats more different species.
2006-10-02 02:11:19 · answer #4 · answered by Transgénico 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If this is in some trivia book then it is undoubtably man.
But Jose is right in the fact that man is an omnivore.
If we're saying that that rules man out, my honest guess would be a deep sea fish. Now if you ask which one I got no friggin clue. Considering we only have classified only like 5% of the ocean's aquatic life, it's pretty easy to say nobody can answer that question for certain.
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Also -- not entirely sure but could MAY want to think about scavengers. As said insects are very diverse eaters -- especially ones that feed off of deceased animals. You also have animals like vultures that eat all sorts of dead animal's remains.
This is a pretty tricky question.
Also, savengers of the sea may again come out on top of those bound to land. The sea is so diverse its hard to imagine that the answer to this question is a land animal.
2006-10-02 02:15:17 · answer #5 · answered by Tonx 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Among land mammals Wild dogs eat any thing from frogs/mice to elephants(dead).A fleet of wild dogs will kill even a tiger or a lion if alone,
Carnivorous means flesh eating.I am not sure eating insects can be classified as carnivorous If this is true Bears which eat insects(termites, bees..) also apart from mammals,birds,reptiles,fish ..could be the one.
Among sea dwellers i think Octopus is the one.
2006-10-02 07:22:02 · answer #6 · answered by balaGraju 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm, man. Nope.
But then, i would say that most types of spiders eat a vast array or arthropod species.
I would say even one long-living type of spider, like a giant orb weaver, eats thousands of types of insects in its lifetime. Thats more types of insects than mammals in africa, so forget about the lion as an option, or even humans. Did any of you ever eat a thousand types of meat?? Ok, maybe the chinese among us.
2006-10-02 06:08:38 · answer #7 · answered by nnjamerson 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man
2006-10-02 02:07:33 · answer #8 · answered by Mordak 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Red necks
2006-10-02 02:09:18 · answer #9 · answered by nick_dyke4x4 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humans, hands down.
2006-10-02 02:08:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋