The secondary consumers in the ecosystem

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Solution-Diagram both crosses and explain the results
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The secondary consumers in the ecosystem

Imagine you are an ecologist, and you do a census of all of the animal species within a particular ecosystem. You discover that the total combined populations of the tertiary consumer species in the ecosystem are a lot smaller than the combined total population sizes of all of the secondary consumers in the ecosystem. Should you be surprised? Why or why not. Be specific about this final part of the answer, and be sure to utilize the concepts of ecology which are pertinent to this question.