Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Living Organisms (hierarchy name)
4. living organisms (entities)
5. Eukaryota (domain)
6. Animalia (kingdom)
7. [animals by activity]

Anotations

Scope note:

Term used in a general sense to refer to any animal or plant that eats animals, as opposed to a plant-eating herbivore or an omnivore, that has a diet of both plant and animal material. For members of the mammalian order Carnivora, use "Carnivora" or the alternate descriptor "carnivores (order)."