I've never written any SQL search queries and I'm not sure if I'm way off base here. Would this work for the problem below?

```
SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY population DESC limit 3; 

```

Here's the problem:
Given the following database table, write an SQL query that will return the animal name and food of the three animals with the highest populations.

```
|id |  animal    |  food        |population |
|---|------------|--------------|---------------| 
|35 |  ocelot    |  mouse       |  1200000      | 
|36 |  dingo     |  rabbit      |  16000000     | 
|41 |  capybara  |  grass       |  400000       | 
|52 |  remora    |  blood       |  82000000     | 
|54 |  emu       |  fruit       |  725000       | 
|63 |  gecko     |  insects     |  9000000      | 
|68 |  earwig    |  lettuce     |  420000000    |

```