What part of a food chain are beavers on?

Answer 1

A beaver is a primary consumer, meaning it eats producers like plants and trees. But it may be eaten by secondary consumers, like wolves. So in this case, the food chain would look like this:

Trees > Beavers > Wolves.

(Producer) > (Primary Consumer) > (Secondary Consumer)

This food chain is part of a greater more complex web. This web will include all of the many types of producers that the beavers eat.

Most beavers tend to munch all sorts of plant food since they're quite adventurous and opportunistic herbivores. However, in winter time when vegetation is scarce, they make a meagre diet out of soft, wet wood that they keep stored in their little beaver dens.

Beavers are mostly nocturnal creatures, and being the second largest rodents in the world, they don't have many predators to worry about, apart from adventurous bears and wolves, or even bad-ass eagles. In addition, they're semi-aquatic creatures and therefore swan around in water away from land-predators.

A winning habit of the rodents is to work by night, and sleep in a safe burrow during day. This is a strategy which helped their ancestors survive the dinosaurs.

Although their position in the food-web may not be very interesting. The dams they build have great influence to their surrounding environment. Beavers may therefore have an indirect effect to other food chains that they aren't a part of.

Answer 2

Wolves. Mostly in January because that's when they reproduce.

Answer 3

Plants and trees near the water where they live.

Answer 4

Beavers eat plants, they are primary consumers.

Answer 5

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