Eat or be Eaten Student Trail
Your challenge today is to observe grassland animals interacting together and find
examples of the adaptations they possess to obtain and digest food and avoid being
eaten themselves.
1. Skull analysis
Circle the features that are present on the skulls that you observe during the Learning
Experiences program.
Animal
Dentition
Molars
Molars
Molars
Carnassial teeth
Carnassial teeth
Carnassial teeth
Upper incisors
Upper incisors
Upper incisors
Lower incisors
Lower incisors
Lower incisors
Canines
Canines
Canines
Mandible (lower
Long
Long
Long
jaw)
Short
Short
Short
Eye position
Forward facing
Forward facing
Forward facing
Side facing
Side facing
Side facing
Herbivore
Herbivore
Herbivore
Omnivore
Omnivore
Omnivore
Carnivore
Carnivore
Carnivore
Type of consumer
Primary consumer
Primary consumer
Primary consumer
-Primary consumers are
Secondary consumer
Secondary consumer
Secondary consumer
animals that eat plants.
Tertiary consumer
Tertiary consumer
Tertiary consumer
Diet
-Secondary consumers
eat primary consumers.
-Tertiary consumers eat
secondary consumers.
Rodent Skull
Diastema
Molars
Incisors
Zygomatic arch
Mandible
2. Using specific examples compare the adaptations of a herbivore with a
carnivore for finding food and avoiding predation in the table below.
Herbivore
Carnivore
Examples of adaptations
for finding food
Examples of adaptations
for avoiding predation.
3. Develop a food web in the space below that includes organisms that you have
observed at the Zoo today.
Include a key to identify and label a producer, a primary consumer, a secondary
consumer and tertiary consumer within your food web.
4. Describe the impact of domestic livestock on a food web in the African savanna.
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5. Outline what Zoos Victoria is doing to help the Melako community in Kenya to reduce
the impact of their livestock on the wild animals of the savanna.
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