Why is there a food chain?

Question

How come smaller animals get eatin by bigger animals? So they can survive? Why survive? Why does the cheetah want to live a long life if he just eats and sleeps? Why do we do what we do if the end is inevitable? Why are we interacting with each other in a huge circle of life?

Answer 1

paradoxically, if a life form was not self-preserving, it would cease to exist, so as to Why it does... well, if it didn't your question would not arise, so the simple answer is, that's just what it life does, by definition: it carries on.

Answer 2

A food chain shows how each living thing gets its food. Most animals are part of more than one food chain and eat more than one kind of food in order to meet their food and energy requirements. These interconnected food chains form a food web. Basically it is animal eating animal in a food web.

Answer 3

good question for a young man. Our Temples require a balance of foods to maintains health . All animals large or small require nourishment unless you are a spirit then you automatically have the nourishment of Living Bread ( Divine Truth). Have you not eaten a hamburger which is beef or buffalo, or chicken..You as the Animal of reason have chooses to enter into the food chain.
Because of Humanity, dignity and self respect we do not accept cannibalism into society, but in the Dark Ages it was very prevalent in the Prison system.
So feel blessed you live in today's society!!
Happy Holidays

Answer 4

I just don't think the cheetah really thinks about his motivation before he eats a little meerkat or something to stay alive. He just does it because instinct tells him to. I am pretty sure humans are the only species who actually can choose what they want to eat. For instance, if we choose to, we can be vegetarian or vegan, or we can eat meat. But it's our choice. Other animals, they just eat whatever they're supposed to eat, and if they do happen to not be meat-eaters, it's just because their teeth aren't sharp, it's not political.

Answer 5

Creatures that don't care if they live or not are less motivated to stay alive. Ones that are highly motivated, then, will out-compete them and succeed in staying alive more. Their greater success will tend to produce more living children of like characteristics.

In other words, the standards for self-preservation can only go up...

Answer 6

I think the food chain is a bunch of crap. Doesn't make sense to me. Animals will eat what they want. They say we are at the top.......yeah right, tell that to a shark.

Answer 7

Survival of the fittest.

Answer 8

Dictionaries are not always reliable. They may give the official meaning of the word but context is crucial. There are, what's more, some words that can never be satisfactorily defined. Take, for example, 'normal'. We all think that we know what it means. We all think we know what everyone else thinks it means. Actually, though, it means something different to each of us, in theory and in practice. At the essence of the conflict in your life now, is an assumption about how things are supposed to be.

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Answer 9

if there was no food chain, the bodies of the dead would quickly out number the bodies of the living.
and:
we live because we love to live.
even when life seems it's darkest, we continue on because all of eternity and infinity pushes us to do so with it's love (no, really!)

Answer 10

It is brought about by the concept "survival of the fittest".