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4 BLOOD FEEDERS 5 OMNIVORES 7 HERBIVORES
These specialized fluid feeders have a With a diet that includes both meat Pandas, muntjacs, caterpillars, and 7
substance in their saliva that stops and plant foods, omnivores, such as tortoises are herbivores—animals
blood from clotting. Female pigs, squirrels, and orang-utans, tend that eat plant parts using special
mosquitoes pierce their prey’s skin, to be opportunists that eat most teeth or other mouthparts.
then suck up blood through special things. Some, including raccoons Leaves and stems are not very
mouthparts. Vampire bats use razor- and foxes, live in close proximity nutritious, so herbivores must
sharp teeth to bite cattle and other to humans, adding garbage and consume large amounts to
mammals, then lap up the blood. roadkill to their normal diet. obtain enough nutrients.

6 FILTER FEEDERS
Bamboo forms
Most filter feeders, from small
99 percent of this
Orang-utan
rock-bound barnacles to mighty Chinese bear’s
baleen whales, live in water. They diet
filter tiny organisms from the water
around them using sievelike body Giant
parts. Flamingos, the only filter- Panda
feeding birds, eat tiny crustaceans.
6 Flamingo

Muntjac
Raccoon
Large, flattened
teeth grind up
vegetation

Sea eagle

Snake suffocates Beak held
its prey in its coils, upside down
then swallows to strain food
it whole from water

Sharp talons
grab fish from
Tortoise
Boa constrictor the water
9 FLUID FEEDERS
Fluid feeders suck liquid food
through tubelike mouthparts.
Butterflies have a long, coiled-up
proboscis that unrolls to drink
energy-rich nectar from flowers.
Aphids pierce plant stems using their
mouthparts to suck up sugary sap.
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