What are the primary consumers in the Amazon rainforest?

There are fewer secondary consumers than there are primary consumers because each secondary consumer needs to eat a lot of primary consumers to live. Animals (fox, coyotes, eagles, owls) who eat the 1st & 2nd consumers are carnivores (they eat meat). They are the TERTIARY CONSUMERS. read more

By definition Primary Consumers are any creature that eats plants. In the Amazon rainforest I imagine such a group would include many, many types of insects, some species of monkeys, sloths, deer, tapirs, capybara, peccaries. read more

The Amazon Rainforest's secondary consumers are deer, kinkajous, river otters, and tapirs. These animals feed on the primary consumers (prey) that have predators, the tertiary consumers. The rainforests tertiary consumers are pumas, jaguars,crocodiles, and poison dart frogs. read more