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Consumer
A consumer is an organism that obtains energy and nutrients from tissues, wastes, or remains of other organisms.
A “heterotroph” is same as a consumer. Being a consumer is one of the conditions of animals. Fungi are also consumers.
Definitions in the literature
- Organism that obtains energy and nutrients by feeding on the tissues, wastes, or remains of other organisms; a heterotroph [1].
- An organism that eats other organisms; a heterotroph [2].
