Are humans primary or secondary consumers?

Question

Primary consumers eat plants. Secondary consumers eat meat. Humans eat both, so are they both primary and secondary consumers?

Answer 1

Actually humans are tertiary consumers since we eat both primary and secondary consumers. The term for eating both plants and animals is omnivore.

Answer 2

Secondary Consumers

Answer 3

It depends what food chain you are looking at. If we eat plants then we are primary. If we eat beef then we are a secondary and if we eat something like shark then we are Tertiary consumers or possibly even higher depending on what the shark has eaten

Answer 4

Primary. We eat meat by choice not by necessity. The nutrients in meats can easily be found in other plants. The other way around is not as easy. Also, the shape of our teeth is designed for plants not meat.

Answer 5

secondary consumers eat other consumers ( that would be us )

if you want to get technical then the GROWING of food is a secondary consumer characteristic ( also us )

Answer 6

Both. Like bears humans are omnivorous.

Answer 7

Humans are the third party.
ok.

Answer 8

That's why they say we are on top of the food chain!!

Answer 9

They are TOTAL CONSUMER :)

Answer 10

yea