In Real Life, vegetation isn't exactly the best source of food. It's hard to digest, is low in some essential nutrients, and requires a specialized digestive system in order to properly process it into anything useful for the animal eating said vegetation. Because of this, most carnivorous animals are not well-adapted to eating plant materials (unlike herbivores, naturally). A subtrope of Carnivore Confusion and Artistic Licence Biology. Contrast Ascended to Carnivorism for when a normally herbivorous animal decides to eat meat. Examples of Vegetarian Carnivore include: