How much energy does an animal get from eating a plant?

In a sense, yes. The feces from animals and the decomposing bodies of animals helps feed the plant which gives it nutrients and energy. They mostly get energy from the sun though. It is a cycle. The animal eats the plants to survive then through its feces it lets out seeds from the plant it ate which also lets out more nutrients for the plants to eat. here is a song to help........................................................................ Everything that lives on earth poos in some way

And thats how the cycle happens each and everyday

Just look at the green green grass and the birds up in the sky

Its all here because of poo and now ill tell you why

Grass is eaten by the cattle

Which is eaten by women and men

Defuses with their body, and becomes poo again

And that poo goes through the sewer

which is tucked into the sea

and its eaten by the plankton which becomes the fishes meal

and the bigger bigger fish with the poo still inside

Swims up near the shore and gets eaten alive

By a grizzly bear that poos on a dead piece of sand

So that it can spring to the life and become poo for the land!

Its the poo of the antelope, the poo of the giraffe

Which crawls up to the earth, and becomes the blades of grass

The grass is eaten by the cattle, which comes out the other end

To make poo for the humans, and start all over again.