Trophic Levels

I am curious, do you have a suggestion on why this elephant doesn't fit in the food chain? But we can still place it in the trophic pyramid?

Each trophic level in a trophic pyramid usually holds many organisms.

What is a trophic level?

A way to classify organisms based on their feeding behavior

Uh oh! I forgot what a mixotroph is, could you help me?

An organism which produces it's own energy and consumes energy made by others.

Will you look at that plant! It has small sacks to digest mosquitos and flies - what sort of word should we describe this with?

Mixotroph

You managed to uncover the placement of a parasite in relation to this simple food web. Why is same species shown in several trophic levels?

The various life stages of most organisms fit in different trophic levels.