Omnivores
These three animals play the role of an omnivore. This means they eat plants and animals. These animals are secondary consumers because they are animals and they eat other animals.

Gray Fox
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Gray Fox
Description: The gray fox is a peppery gray on top, reddish-brown on its sides, chest and back of the head. Its legs and feet are also a reddish color.  It has a long bushy tail with a black stripe on top, pointed ears, a pointed muzzle and long hooked claws.
Habitat: The gray fox lives in a wide variety of habitats, but prefers areas with lots of brush or woods.
Diet: The gray fox is a solitary hunter and eats a wide variety of foods. A large part of its diet is made up of small mammals like mice, voles, and eastern cotton-tail rabbits. It also eats birds, insects, and plants like corn, apples, nuts, berries, and grass.  In the summer and autumn grasshoppers and crickets are important parts of its diet.

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Grizzly Bear
Description:  The grizzly bear is also known as the brown bear. It has fur that ranges from a cream or silver color to an almost black color.  Some grizzly bear's fur is tipped in a lighter color than the rest of its fur.  This gives the fur a grizzled look and is how the bear got its name.  The grizzly bear has a slight hump above its shoulder and can weigh between 350-1500 pounds. 
Habitat: The grizzly bear lives along rivers and coastal areas, mountain meadows, and in the tundra. In parts of Europe and Asia, the grizzly can be found in forests and mountain woodlands.
Diet: It eats berries, roots, fungi, grasses, fish, carrion, small mammals, and insects. It is very good at catching fish. Some Grizzlies in the Rockies like moose and elk, some of the larger animals.


Grizzly Bear
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Red Fox
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Red Fox
Description: The red fox has orangish-red fur on its back, sides and head. It has white fur under its neck and on its chest.  It has a long bushy tail tipped in white, pointed black ears and black legs and feet.
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The red fox makes its home in wooded areas, prairies and farmland.  

Diet:  It is an omnivore and its diet includes fruits, berries, and grasses.  It also eats birds and small mammals like squirrels, rabbits, and mice.  A large part of the red fox's diet is made up invertebrates like crickets, caterpillars, grasshoppers, beetles and crayfish.
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