Are insectovores carnivores ?

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  1. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    An insectivore is an animal with a diet consisting mainly of insects.
    A carnivore is an animal with a diet consisting mainly of meat, whether it comes from living animals living or dead ones (scavenging).
    So can they be said to be carnivores ?

    Edit: Misspelled insectivore in the title

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  3. Steve100 O͓͍̯̬̯̙͈̟̥̳̩͒̆̿ͬ̑̀̓̿͋ͬ ̙̳ͅ ̫̪̳͔O Valued Senior Member

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    Depends on whether the insects they eat are comprised of mainly meat or not.
    If so, they are carnivores.
     
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  5. Orbit A Service to the Blind. Registered Senior Member

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    i would say so yes. its still feeding off another animal as such... But then again maybe not. Not sure if bug goo constitutes the insect as an animal.. since its an insect. oh ive had a long day so far.
     
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  7. Yorda Registered Senior Member

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    They aren't carnivores because insects aren't made of meat, they're made of shells, wings, legs and slime. Insects aren't animals, they're insects.
     
  8. Spud Emperor solanaceous common tater Registered Senior Member

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    You deserve a shellacking for that piece of shit.
     
  9. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    Why aren't insects animals ?
     
  10. Yorda Registered Senior Member

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    they're too small and different from animals. for example, there's no animal that has a net eye like flies have. and no animals have weird transparent wings like insects have.
     
  11. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    What about other small creatures such as spiders, millipedes and worms ?
     
  12. GeoffP Caput gerat lupinum Valued Senior Member

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    Yorda = bollocks.

    Yes, they are carnivores. Similarly, although Yorda is composed seemingly entirely of poop, a living creature devouring him would indeed be considered a carnivore. Although by that definition one could argue that syphilis is a carnivore.
     
  13. Yorda Registered Senior Member

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    spiders are insects, millipedes are insects (because they have legs and other insect attributes) and worms at the same time. ordinary worms are neither insects or animals, they're just worms.
     
  14. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    I'm curious, what are snails ?

    And if all the creatures are not animals.. what are they ?
     
  15. Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    I never thought carnivores as meat eaters. I thought of them as 'other animal eaters' And since bugs are animals, then yep, they are carnivores. What if they kill the animal, but don't eat it. They eat the plants in the stomach of the other animal. What are they then?
     
  16. Yorda Registered Senior Member

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    snails kinda look like worms, but because they come out from a shell, they're not entirely worms. they are snails.

    i should also say that dolphins are fish, because most people usually think they're something else.

    they are lifeforms and creatures.
     
  17. Steve100 O͓͍̯̬̯̙͈̟̥̳̩͒̆̿ͬ̑̀̓̿͋ͬ ̙̳ͅ ̫̪̳͔O Valued Senior Member

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    Yorda is God man, it says so in his title, no wonder he has his own strict definitions of things, he is the grand authority.
     
  18. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    Yorda, give me some examples of actual animals..
     
  19. Yorda Registered Senior Member

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    dogs, cats, pigs, lions and tigers. these are earth element animals. fish are water, and birds are air element. i'm not sure what the fire animals are.
     
  20. CharonZ Registered Senior Member

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    Why, salamanders, of course. Usually you have attack them with a Water sword +3 to be able to damage them. Unless you wear the ring of aqua damage.
     
  21. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    So any creature that can fly or swim is not an animal ?
     
  22. Yorda Registered Senior Member

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    sure they are. like i said, there are 4 types of animals, for each element.

    and i've also mentioned before that there are 4 lifeforms: matter (earth), plants (water), animals (air), humans (fire).
     
  23. visceral_instinct Monkey see, monkey denigrate Valued Senior Member

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    Yorda, you're talking crap.

    Basically, if it can walk, eat, shit, and have sex, it's an animal. Insects do all of those.

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