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  2. List of feeding behaviours - Wikipedia

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    Circular dendrogram of feeding behaviours A mosquito drinking blood (hematophagy) from a human (note the droplet of plasma being expelled as a waste) A rosy boa eating a mouse whole A red kangaroo eating grass The robberfly is an insectivore, shown here having grabbed a leaf beetle An American robin eating a worm Hummingbirds primarily drink nectar A krill filter feeding A Myrmicaria brunnea ...

  3. Invertivore - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 22 August 2014, at 00:37 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may ...

  4. Entomophagy - Wikipedia

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    Entomophagy (/ ˌ ɛ n t ə ˈ m ɒ f ə dʒ i /, from Greek ἔντομον éntomon, 'insect', and φαγεῖν phagein, 'to eat') is the practice of eating insects. An alternative term is insectivory. [1] [2] Terms for organisms that practice entomophagy are entomophage and insectivore.

  5. Tadpole madtom - Wikipedia

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    The tadpole madtom is an invertivore, planktivore, but also feeds on particulate. A Common food source for the tadpole madtom are immature insects and small crustaceans such as cladocera, ostracods, hyalella, and chironomids. Another popular food source is small crustaceans such as amphipods and isopods. Smaller fish feed more on small ...

  6. Insectivore - Wikipedia

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    A robber fly eating a hoverfly The giant anteater, a large insectivorous mammal. An insectivore is a carnivorous animal or plant that eats insects. [1] An alternative term is entomophage, [2] which can also refer to the human practice of eating insects. The first vertebrate insectivores were amphibians.

  7. Satanoperca jurupari - Wikipedia

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    With the help of gill rakers, food is sorted and substrate is either spat out or sifted out from the operculum. While generally considered to be an invertivore, it has been documented as an omnivore in systems that have been disturbed by human activity. [1]

  8. Piscivore - Wikipedia

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    Northern water snake (Nerodia sipedon) eating a catfish An Atlantic puffin with a mouth full of lesser sand eels. A piscivore (/ ˈ p ɪ s ɪ v ɔːr /) is a carnivorous animal that primarily eats fish. The name piscivore is derived from Latin piscis 'fish' and vorō 'to devour'.

  9. Invertebrate zoology - Wikipedia

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    Invertebrate zoology is the subdiscipline of zoology that consists of the study of invertebrates, animals without a backbone (a structure which is found only in fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals).