The mysteries of Life with Selkie and friends: Energy Pyramid


 * (The Mysteries of life with Selkie and friends)
 * Male voice: It's that time of year again. The time when fear leaves the skies and heads into your living room. Nature's deadliest killing machines.
 * (SMASH!)
 * Male voice: As you've never seen them before.
 * (PCHEW!)
 * Male voice: It's the year of the dragon. And this time, it's personal.
 * Bing Bong: Wow!
 * Selkie: I don't think you have anything to worry about. Some of that footage seems a little fake.
 * (Reggie gives the note to Selkie)
 * Selkie: Dear Selkie and friends, What is an energy pyramid? Your friend Lyndis.
 * Classified: Maybe this. (Sits on top of the pyramid)
 * Selkie: Uh, I don't think she means that pyramid. The energy pyramid is a model for how energy spreads through the ecosystem. You remember food chains right?
 * Sharptooth: Yep. (Shows a chain of sausage)
 * Selkie: Why are you being so literal today? Okay, the food chain describes how organisms in an ecosystem are linked together by what they eat. At the bottom are producers. On land, that includes plants, from moss and grass to shrubs and trees.
 * (A giraffe appears)
 * Selkie: The producers are eaten by primary consumers such as elephants. These are herbivores or plant eaters.
 * Selkie: In turn, the primary consumers are eaten by secondary consumers.
 * (A tiger appears)
 * Selkie: