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Are there any known examples of animal life that don't depend on consuming other life (plant or animal)? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by ALostInquirer@lemm.ee to c/askbiologists@lemmy.world

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There's herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores, but is there any category of animal life that can sustain itself on anything else that isn't related to living organisms?

Is the only known example of this at the moment basically...Plants, give or take the particular species & how one may interpret the question of relation to other life?

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[–] poopyboogaloo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

There are also organisms that live off of thermal energy, which I think are not part of the plant kingdom. But I could be mistaken.