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List of feeding behaviours

Index List of feeding behaviours

Feeding is the process by which organisms, typically animals, obtain food. [1]

100 relations: Alcohol, Animal, Aquatic feeding mechanisms, Autophagy, Avivore, Bacterivore, Beak, Bird, Camouflage, Cannibalism, Carnivore, Claw, Commensalism, Consumer-resource systems, Coprophagia, Detritivore, Digestion, Dinosaur diet and feeding, Durophagy, Ecdysis, Evolution, Exoskeleton, Extracellular digestion, Exudate, Felidae, Filter feeder, Fish, Florivore, Fluid feeder, Folivore, Food, Frugivore, Fungivore, Generalist and specialist species, Geophagia, Glossary of entomology terms, Graminivore, Hawk, Hematophagy, Herbivore, Hoarding (animal behavior), Human, Hummingbird, Hypercarnivore, Hypocarnivore, Ingestive behaviors, Insect, Insectivore, Invertebrate, Kingfisher, ..., Kleptoparasitism, Leech, Lepidophagy, Lignophagia, List of abnormal behaviours in animals, List of feeding behaviours, Mesocarnivore, Molluscivore, Mosquito, Mouth, Mucophagy, Myrmecophagy, Myzocytosis, Nectarivore, Omnivore, Oophagy, Ophiophagy, Opportunism, Osteophagy, Paedophagy, Palynivore, Parrot, Pelican, Phagocytosis, Pica (disorder), Piscivore, Placentophagy, Plant, Primate, Saprophagy, Scavenger, Seashell, Seed predation, Self-cannibalism, Self-medication, Sexual cannibalism, Soil, Spongivore, Stomach, Suffix, Symbiosis, Tineidae, Tooth, Trophallaxis, Vampire bat, Vermivore, Whale, Woodpecker, Xylophagy, Zoopharmacognosy. Expand index (50 more) »

Alcohol

In chemistry, an alcohol is any organic compound in which the hydroxyl functional group (–OH) is bound to a carbon.

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Animal

Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Aquatic feeding mechanisms

Aquatic feeding mechanisms face a special difficulty as compared to feeding on land, because the density of water is about the same as that of the prey, so the prey tends to be pushed away when the mouth is closed.

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Autophagy

Autophagy (or autophagocytosis) (from the Ancient Greek αὐτόφαγος autóphagos, meaning "self-devouring" and κύτος kýtos, meaning "hollow") is the natural, regulated, destructive mechanism of the cell that disassembles unnecessary or dysfunctional components.

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Avivore

An avivore is a specialized predator of birds, with birds making up a large proportion of its diet.

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Bacterivore

Bacterivores are free-living, generally heterotrophic organisms, exclusively microscopic, which obtain energy and nutrients primarily or entirely from the consumption of bacteria.

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Beak

The beak, bill, or rostrum is an external anatomical structure of birds that is used for eating and for preening, manipulating objects, killing prey, fighting, probing for food, courtship and feeding young.

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Bird

Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Camouflage

Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see (crypsis), or by disguising them as something else (mimesis).

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Cannibalism

Cannibalism is the act of one individual of a species consuming all or part of another individual of the same species as food.

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Carnivore

A carnivore, meaning "meat eater" (Latin, caro, genitive carnis, meaning "meat" or "flesh" and vorare meaning "to devour"), is an organism that derives its energy and nutrient requirements from a diet consisting mainly or exclusively of animal tissue, whether through predation or scavenging.

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Claw

A claw is a curved, pointed appendage, found at the end of a toe or finger in most amniotes (mammals, reptiles, birds).

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Commensalism

Commensalism is a long term biological interaction (symbiosis) in which members of one species gain benefits while those of the other species are neither benefited nor harmed.

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Consumer-resource systems

Consumer-resource interactions are the core motif of ecological food chains or food webs, and are an umbrella term for a variety of more specialized types of biological species interactions including prey-predator (see predation), host-parasite (see parasitism), plant-herbivore and victim-exploiter systems.

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Coprophagia

Coprophagia or coprophagy is the consumption of feces.

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Detritivore

Detritivores, also known as detrivores, detritophages, detritus feeders, or detritus eaters, are heterotrophs that obtain nutrients by consuming detritus (decomposing plant and animal parts as well as feces).

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Digestion

Digestion is the breakdown of large insoluble food molecules into small water-soluble food molecules so that they can be absorbed into the watery blood plasma.

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Dinosaur diet and feeding

Dinosaur diets and feeding behavior varied widely throughout the clade, including carnivorous, herbivorous, and omnivorous forms.

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Durophagy

Durophagy is the eating behavior of animals that consume hard-shelled or exoskeleton bearing organisms, such as corals, shelled mollusks, or crabs.

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Ecdysis

Ecdysis is the moulting of the cuticle in many invertebrates of the clade Ecdysozoa.

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Evolution

Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.

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Exoskeleton

An exoskeleton (from Greek έξω, éxō "outer" and σκελετός, skeletós "skeleton") is the external skeleton that supports and protects an animal's body, in contrast to the internal skeleton (endoskeleton) of, for example, a human.

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Extracellular digestion

Extracellular digestion is a process in which saprobionts feed by secreting enzymes through the cell membrane onto the food.

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Exudate

An exudate is a fluid emitted by an organism through pores or a wound, a process known as exuding.

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Felidae

The biological family Felidae is a lineage of carnivorans colloquially referred to as cats.

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Filter feeder

Filter feeders are a sub-group of suspension feeding animals that feed by straining suspended matter and food particles from water, typically by passing the water over a specialized filtering structure.

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Fish

Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.

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Florivore

In zoology, a florivore (not to be confused with a folivore) is an animal whose diet consists mainly of the products of flowers.

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Fluid feeder

Fluid feeders are organisms that feed on the fluid of other organisms.

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Folivore

In zoology, a folivore is a herbivore that specializes in eating leaves.

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Food

Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for an organism.

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Frugivore

A frugivore is a fruit eater.

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Fungivore

Fungivory or mycophagy is the process of organisms consuming fungi.

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Generalist and specialist species

A generalist species is able to thrive in a wide variety of environmental conditions and can make use of a variety of different resources (for example, a heterotroph with a varied diet).

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Geophagia

Geophagia, also known as geophagy, is the practice of eating earth or soil-like substrates such as clay or chalk.

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Glossary of entomology terms

This glossary of entomology describes terms used in the formal study of insect species by entomologists.

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Graminivore

In zoology, a graminivore (not to be confused with a granivore) is an herbivorous animal that feeds primarily on grass (specifically "true" grasses, plants of the family Poaceae).

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Hawk

Hawks are a group of medium-sized diurnal birds of prey of the family Accipitridae.

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Hematophagy

Hematophagy (sometimes spelled haematophagy or hematophagia) is the practice by certain animals of feeding on blood (from the Greek words αἷμα haima "blood" and φάγειν phagein "to eat").

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Herbivore

A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage, for the main component of its diet.

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Hoarding (animal behavior)

Hoarding or caching in animal behavior is the storage of food in locations hidden from the sight of both conspecifics (animals of the same or closely related species) and members of other species.

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Human

Humans (taxonomically Homo sapiens) are the only extant members of the subtribe Hominina.

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Hummingbird

Hummingbirds are birds from the Americas that constitute the family Trochilidae.

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Hypercarnivore

A hypercarnivore is an animal which has a diet that is more than 70% meat, with the balance consisting of non-animal foods such as fungi, fruits or other plant material.

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Hypocarnivore

A hypocarnivore is an animal that consumes less than 30% meat for its diet, the majority of which consists of non-vertebrate foods that may include fungi, fruits, and other plant material.

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Ingestive behaviors

Ingestive behaviors encompass all eating and drinking behaviors.

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Insect

Insects or Insecta (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates and the largest group within the arthropod phylum.

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Insectivore

robber fly eating a hoverfly An insectivore is a carnivorous plant or animal that eats insects.

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Invertebrate

Invertebrates are animals that neither possess nor develop a vertebral column (commonly known as a backbone or spine), derived from the notochord.

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Kingfisher

Kingfishers or Alcedinidae are a family of small to medium-sized, brightly colored birds in the order Coraciiformes.

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Kleptoparasitism

Kleptoparasitism (literally, parasitism by theft) is a form of feeding in which one animal takes prey or other food from another that has caught, collected, or otherwise prepared the food, including stored food (as in the case of cuckoo bees, which lay their eggs on the pollen masses made by other bees; food resources could also be in the form of hosts of parasitic or parasitoid wasps).

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Leech

Leeches are segmented parasitic or predatory worm-like animals that belong to the phylum Annelida and comprise the subclass Hirudinea.

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Lepidophagy

Lepidophagy is a specialised feeding behaviour in fish that involves eating of scales of other fish.

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Lignophagia

Lignophagia is the abnormal behaviour of chewing and eating wood.

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List of abnormal behaviours in animals

Abnormal behaviour in animals can be defined in several ways.

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List of feeding behaviours

Feeding is the process by which organisms, typically animals, obtain food.

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Mesocarnivore

A mesocarnivore is an animal whose diet consists of 30–70% meat with the balance consisting of non-vertebrate foods which may include fungi, fruits, and other plant material.

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Molluscivore

A molluscivore is a carnivorous animal that specialises in feeding on molluscs such as gastropods, bivalves, brachiopods and cephalopods.

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Mosquito

Mosquitoes are small, midge-like flies that constitute the family Culicidae.

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Mouth

In animal anatomy, the mouth, also known as the oral cavity, buccal cavity, or in Latin cavum oris, is the opening through which many animals take in food and issue vocal sounds.

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Mucophagy

Mucophagy (literally "mucus feeding") is feeding on mucus of fishes or invertebrates.

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Myrmecophagy

Myrmecophagy is a feeding behavior defined by the consumption of termites or ants, particularly as pertaining to those animal species whose diets are largely or exclusively composed of said insect types.

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Myzocytosis

Myzocytosis (from Greek: myzein, (μυζεῖν) meaning "to suck" and kytos (κύτος) meaning "container", hence referring to "cell") is a method of feeding found in some heterotrophic organisms.

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Nectarivore

In zoology, a nectarivore is an animal which derives its energy and nutrient requirements from a diet consisting mainly or exclusively of the sugar-rich nectar produced by flowering plants.

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Omnivore

Omnivore is a consumption classification for animals that have the capability to obtain chemical energy and nutrients from materials originating from plant and animal origin.

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Oophagy

Oophagy sometimes ovophagy, literally "egg eating", is the practice of embryos feeding on eggs produced by the ovary while still inside the mother's uterus.

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Ophiophagy

Ophiophagy (Greek ὄφις + φαγία "snake eating") is a specialized form of feeding or alimentary behavior of animals which hunt and eat snakes.

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Opportunism

Opportunism is the conscious policy and practice of taking advantage of circumstances – with little regard for principles, or with what the consequences are for others.

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Osteophagy

Osteophagy is the practice in which animals, usually herbivores, consume bones.

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Paedophagy

Paedophagy (literally meaning the "consumption of children") in its general form is the feeding behaviour of fish or other animals whose diet is partially, or primarily the eggs or larvae of other animals.

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Palynivore

In zoology, a palynivore is an herbivorous animal which selectively eats the nutrient-rich pollen produced by angiosperms and gymnosperms.

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Parrot

Parrots, also known as psittacines, are birds of the roughly 393 species in 92 genera that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most tropical and subtropical regions.

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Pelican

Pelicans are a genus of large water birds that make up the family Pelecanidae.

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Phagocytosis

In cell biology, phagocytosis is the process by which a cell—often a phagocyte or a protist—engulfs a solid particle to form an internal compartment known as a phagosome.

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Pica (disorder)

Pica is a psychological disorder characterized by an appetite for substances that are largely non-nutritive, such as ice (pagophagia); hair (trichophagia); paper (xylophagia); drywall or paint; metal (metallophagia); stones (lithophagia) or soil (geophagia); glass (hyalophagia); or feces (coprophagia); and chalk.

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Piscivore

A piscivore is a carnivorous animal that eats primarily fish.

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Placentophagy

Placentophagy (from 'placenta' + Greek φαγειν, to eat; also referred to as placentophagia) is the act of mammals eating the placenta of their young after childbirth.

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Plant

Plants are mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae.

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Primate

A primate is a mammal of the order Primates (Latin: "prime, first rank").

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Saprophagy

Saprophages are olophages that obtain nutrients by consuming decomposing dead plant or animal biomass.

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Scavenger

Scavenging is both a carnivorous and a herbivorous feeding behavior in which the scavenger feeds on dead animal and plant material present in its habitat.

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Seashell

A seashell or sea shell, also known simply as a shell, is a hard, protective outer layer created by an animal that lives in the sea.

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Seed predation

Seed predation, often referred to as granivory, is a type of plant-animal interaction in which granivores (seed predators) feed on the seeds of plants as a main or exclusive food source,Hulme, P.E. and Benkman, C.W. (2002) "Granivory", pp.

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Self-cannibalism

Self-cannibalism is the practice of eating oneself, also called autocannibalism, or autosarcophagy.

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Self-medication

Self-medication is a human behavior in which an individual uses a substance or any exogenous influence to self-administer treatment for physical or psychological ailments.

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Sexual cannibalism

Sexual cannibalism is when a female cannibalizes her mate prior to, during, or after copulation.

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Soil

Soil is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support life.

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Spongivore

A spongivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating animals of the phylum Porifera, commonly called sea sponges, for the main component of its diet.

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Stomach

The stomach (from ancient Greek στόμαχος, stomachos, stoma means mouth) is a muscular, hollow organ in the gastrointestinal tract of humans and many other animals, including several invertebrates.

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Suffix

In linguistics, a suffix (sometimes termed postfix) is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word.

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Symbiosis

Symbiosis (from Greek συμβίωσις "living together", from σύν "together" and βίωσις "living") is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two different biological organisms, be it mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasitic.

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Tineidae

Tineidae is a family of moths in the order Lepidoptera described by Pierre André Latreille in 1810.

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Tooth

A tooth (plural teeth) is a hard, calcified structure found in the jaws (or mouths) of many vertebrates and used to break down food.

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Trophallaxis

Trophallaxis is the transfer of food or other fluids among members of a community through mouth-to-mouth (stomodeal) or anus-to-mouth (proctodeal) feeding.

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Vampire bat

Vampire bats are bats whose food source is blood, a dietary trait called hematophagy.

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Vermivore

Vermivore (from Latin vermi, meaning "worm" and vorare, "to devour") is a zoological term for animals that eat worms (including annelids, nematodes, and other worm-like animals).

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Whale

Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals.

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Woodpecker

Woodpeckers are part of the family Picidae, a group of near-passerine birds that also consist of piculets, wrynecks, and sapsuckers.

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Xylophagy

Xylophagy is a term used in ecology to describe the habits of an herbivorous animal whose diet consists primarily (often solely) of wood.

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Zoopharmacognosy

Zoopharmacognosy is a behaviour in which non-human animals apparently self-medicate by selecting and ingesting or topically applying plants, soils, insects, and psychoactive drugs to prevent or reduce the harmful effects of pathogens and toxins.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_feeding_behaviours

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