The picture below shows a crocodile floating in a river.   Crocodiles are often difficult to find.   Even if you do come across one, you'll wish you hadn't!  

Crocodile waiting for their prey.

This crocodile is lurking in the river, watching, waiting.   Sooner or later an unsuspecting animal - maybe a sheep or a dingo - will be down at the river's edge having a quiet drink. Faster than you thought possible, the crocodile can get out of the water and wrap its great big jaws around the animal.  

Then it will pull the terrified animal back into the water to drown it.   Later, the dead animal will be dragged from the bottom of the river to be eaten.

The diagram below shows some carnivores

Other examples of carnivores include bream, killer whales, bluebottles and pelicans.

Now write a definition for carnivore.

Carnivore comes from Latin.   Carnis means flesh, or meat.   Not all animals contain meat, but scientists say that any animal that eats other animals is called a carnivore.

Lesson 8 - What do animals eat?

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