Carnivore
Organism that eats mostly or exclusively animal tissue / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the general concept of a meat-eating animal. For the mammal order, see Carnivora. For other uses, see Carnivore (disambiguation).
"Carnivorous" redirects here. For the Hawkwind album, see Carnivorous (album).
A carnivore /ˈkɑːrnɪvɔːr/, or meat-eater (Latin, caro, genitive carnis, meaning meat or "flesh" and vorare meaning "to devour"), is an animal or plant whose food and energy requirements derive from the consumption of animal tissues (mainly muscle, fat and other soft tissues) whether through hunting or scavenging.[1][2]