Meet Charles, He's a Heterotroph

Captured at the Mautern in Austria

This is Charles, and yes I named a brown bear Charles. I met Charles at the Mautern (pronounced "Moutern") in Austria, basically the Moutern is a mountain in Austria that is a zoo, it's a really amazing zoo actually. Anyways Charles here, is a heterotroph, which means an organism the needs organic compounds for food. Organic compounds are any type of edible item that contains carbon. Charles is a bear and eats meat as well as other types of foods like carrots, berries, ect. in which all contain carbon. In this photo, Charles looked up at us begging for more carrots because we dropped them down for him. He has a pretty intense stare though, don't you think?

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