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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Feeding_behaviours_Circular_Dendrogram.svg/330px-Feeding_behaviours_Circular_Dendrogram.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Feeding_behaviours_Circular_Dendrogram.svg/440px-Feeding_behaviours_Circular_Dendrogram.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="700" data-file-height="700" /></a><figcaption>Circular dendrogram of feeding behaviours </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Anopheles_stephensi.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Anopheles_stephensi.jpeg/220px-Anopheles_stephensi.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Anopheles_stephensi.jpeg/330px-Anopheles_stephensi.jpeg 1.5x, 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<a href="/wiki/Rosy_boa" class="mw-redirect" title="Rosy boa">rosy boa</a> eating a mouse whole</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kangur.rudy.drs.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Kangur.rudy.drs.jpg/220px-Kangur.rudy.drs.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Kangur.rudy.drs.jpg/330px-Kangur.rudy.drs.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Kangur.rudy.drs.jpg/440px-Kangur.rudy.drs.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="330" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/Red_kangaroo" title="Red kangaroo">red kangaroo</a> eating grass</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pegesimallus_sp_robberfly.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Pegesimallus_sp_robberfly.jpg/220px-Pegesimallus_sp_robberfly.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Pegesimallus_sp_robberfly.jpg/330px-Pegesimallus_sp_robberfly.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Pegesimallus_sp_robberfly.jpg/440px-Pegesimallus_sp_robberfly.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1067" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Robberfly" class="mw-redirect" title="Robberfly">robberfly</a> is an <a href="/wiki/Insectivore" title="Insectivore">insectivore</a>, shown here having grabbed a <a href="/wiki/Leaf_beetle" title="Leaf beetle">leaf beetle</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Robin_eating_a_worm_in_spring.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Robin_eating_a_worm_in_spring.jpg/220px-Robin_eating_a_worm_in_spring.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="186" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Robin_eating_a_worm_in_spring.jpg/330px-Robin_eating_a_worm_in_spring.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Robin_eating_a_worm_in_spring.jpg/440px-Robin_eating_a_worm_in_spring.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1680" data-file-height="1424" /></a><figcaption>An <a href="/wiki/American_robin" title="American robin">American robin</a> eating a worm</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Colibri-thalassinus-001-edit.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Colibri-thalassinus-001-edit.jpg/220px-Colibri-thalassinus-001-edit.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="138" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Colibri-thalassinus-001-edit.jpg/330px-Colibri-thalassinus-001-edit.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Colibri-thalassinus-001-edit.jpg/440px-Colibri-thalassinus-001-edit.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2112" data-file-height="1320" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Hummingbird" title="Hummingbird">Hummingbirds</a> primarily drink nectar</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Filterkrillkils2.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Filterkrillkils2.gif/220px-Filterkrillkils2.gif" decoding="async" width="220" height="327" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Filterkrillkils2.gif 1.5x" data-file-width="279" data-file-height="415" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/Krill" title="Krill">krill</a> filter feeding</figcaption></figure><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Myrmicaria_brunnea.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Myrmicaria_brunnea.jpg/220px-Myrmicaria_brunnea.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="112" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Myrmicaria_brunnea.jpg/330px-Myrmicaria_brunnea.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Myrmicaria_brunnea.jpg/440px-Myrmicaria_brunnea.jpg 2x" data-file-width="775" data-file-height="394" /></a><figcaption>A <i><a href="/wiki/Myrmicaria_brunnea" title="Myrmicaria brunnea">Myrmicaria brunnea</a></i> feeding on <a href="/wiki/Sugar" title="Sugar">sugar</a> crystals</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Feeding</b> is the process by which organisms, typically <a href="/wiki/Animal" title="Animal">animals</a>, obtain <a href="/wiki/Food" title="Food">food</a>. Terminology often uses either the <a href="/wiki/Suffix" title="Suffix">suffixes</a> -vore, -vory, or -vorous from Latin <i>vorare</i>, meaning "to devour", or -phage, -phagy, or -phagous from Greek φαγεῖν (<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc-Latn">phagein</i></span>), meaning "to eat". </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Evolutionary_history">Evolutionary history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_feeding_behaviours&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Evolutionary history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The evolution of feeding is varied with some feeding strategies evolving several times in independent lineages. In terrestrial vertebrates, the earliest forms were large amphibious <a href="/wiki/Piscivore" title="Piscivore">piscivores</a> 400 million years ago. While amphibians continued to feed on fish and later insects, reptiles began exploring two new food types, other tetrapods (carnivory), and later, plants (herbivory). Carnivory was a natural transition from insectivory for medium and large tetrapods, requiring minimal adaptation (in contrast, a complex set of adaptations was necessary for feeding on highly fibrous plant materials).<sup id="cite_ref-SahneyBentonFerry2010RainforestCollapse_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SahneyBentonFerry2010RainforestCollapse-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Evolutionary_adaptations">Evolutionary adaptations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_feeding_behaviours&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Evolutionary adaptations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/List_of_feeding_behaviours" title="Special:EditPage/List of feeding behaviours">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">October 2017</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The specialization of organisms towards specific food sources is one of the major causes of <a href="/wiki/Evolution" title="Evolution">evolution</a> of form and function, such as: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mouth" title="Mouth">Mouth</a> parts and <a href="/wiki/Tooth" title="Tooth">teeth</a>, such as in <a href="/wiki/Whale" title="Whale">whales</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vampire_bat" title="Vampire bat">vampire bats</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leech" title="Leech">leeches</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mosquito" title="Mosquito">mosquitos</a>, predatory animals such as <a href="/wiki/Felidae" title="Felidae">felines</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fish" title="Fish">fishes</a>, etc.</li> <li>Distinct forms of <a href="/wiki/Beak" title="Beak">beaks</a> in <a href="/wiki/Birds" class="mw-redirect" title="Birds">birds</a>, such as in <a href="/wiki/Hawk" title="Hawk">hawks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Woodpecker" title="Woodpecker">woodpeckers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pelican" title="Pelican">pelicans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hummingbird" title="Hummingbird">hummingbirds</a>, <a href="/wiki/Parrot" title="Parrot">parrots</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kingfisher" title="Kingfisher">Kingfishers</a>, etc.</li> <li>Specialized <a href="/wiki/Claw" title="Claw">claws</a> and other appendages, for apprehending or killing (including fingers in <a href="/wiki/Primate" title="Primate">primates</a>)</li> <li>Changes in body colour for facilitating <a href="/wiki/Camouflage" title="Camouflage">camouflage</a>, disguise, setting up traps for preys, etc.</li> <li>Changes in the <a href="/wiki/Digestion" title="Digestion">digestive</a> system, such as the system of <a href="/wiki/Stomach" title="Stomach">stomachs</a> of herbivores, <a href="/wiki/Commensalism" title="Commensalism">commensalism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Symbiosis" title="Symbiosis">symbiosis</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Classification">Classification</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_feeding_behaviours&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Classification"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/List_of_feeding_behaviours" title="Special:EditPage/List of feeding behaviours">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">October 2017</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="By_mode_of_ingestion">By mode of ingestion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_feeding_behaviours&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: By mode of ingestion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are many modes of feeding that animals exhibit, including: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Filter_feeder" title="Filter feeder">Filter feeding</a>: A form of food procurement in which food particles or small organisms are randomly strained from water.</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Deposit_feeder" class="mw-redirect" title="Deposit feeder">Deposit feeding</a>: obtaining nutrients from particles suspended in soil</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fluid_feeder_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Fluid feeder (disambiguation)">Fluid feeding</a>: obtaining nutrients by consuming other organisms' fluids</li> <li>Bulk feeding: obtaining nutrients by eating all of an organism.</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ram_feeding" class="mw-redirect" title="Ram feeding">Ram feeding</a> and <a href="/wiki/Suction_feeding" class="mw-redirect" title="Suction feeding">suction feeding</a>: ingesting prey via the fluids around it.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="By_mode_of_digestion">By mode of digestion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_feeding_behaviours&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: By mode of digestion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Extra-cellular_digestion" class="mw-redirect" title="Extra-cellular digestion">Extra-cellular digestion</a>: excreting digesting enzymes and then reabsorbing the products</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Myzocytosis" title="Myzocytosis">Myzocytosis</a>: one cell pierces another using a feeding tube, and sucks out cytoplasm</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phagocytosis" title="Phagocytosis">Phagocytosis</a>: engulfing food matter into living cells, where it is digested</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="By_food_type">By food type</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_feeding_behaviours&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: By food type"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Polyphagy" redirects here. For increased appetite as a medical symptom, see <a href="/wiki/Polyphagia" title="Polyphagia">polyphagia</a>.</div> <p><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/polyphagy" class="extiw" title="wikt:polyphagy">Polyphagy</a> is the habit in an animal species, of eating and tolerating a relatively wide variety of foods, whereas <a href="/wiki/Monophagy" class="mw-redirect" title="Monophagy">monophagy</a> is the intolerance of every food except for one specific type (see <a href="/wiki/Generalist_and_specialist_species" title="Generalist and specialist species">generalist and specialist species</a>). <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oligophagy" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:oligophagy">Oligophagy</a> is a term for intermediate degrees of selectivity, referring to animals that eat a relatively small range of foods, either because of preference or necessity.<sup id="cite_ref-Johns_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Johns-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Another classification refers to the specific food animals specialize in eating, such as: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Carnivore" title="Carnivore">Carnivore</a>: the eating of animals <ul><li>Araneophagy: eating spiders</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avivore" title="Avivore">Avivore</a>: eating birds</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corallivore" title="Corallivore">Corallivore</a>: eating coral</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Durophagy" title="Durophagy">Durophagy</a>: eating <a href="/wiki/Seashell" title="Seashell">hard-shelled</a> or <a href="/wiki/Exoskeleton" title="Exoskeleton">exoskeleton</a> bearing organisms</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egg_predator" class="mw-redirect" title="Egg predator">Egg predator</a>: eating eggs (but also see "<a href="#Intrauterine_cannibalism">Intrauterine cannibalism</a>" below), also <a href="/wiki/Ovivore" class="mw-redirect" title="Ovivore">Ovivore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hematophage" class="mw-redirect" title="Hematophage">Haematophage/Sanguivore</a>: eating blood</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Insectivore" title="Insectivore">Insectivore</a>: eating insects <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Myrmecophagy" title="Myrmecophagy">Myrmecophage</a>: eating ants and/or termites</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Invertivore" class="mw-redirect" title="Invertivore">Invertivore</a>: eating <a href="/wiki/Invertebrates" class="mw-redirect" title="Invertebrates">invertebrates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keratophagy" class="mw-redirect" title="Keratophagy">Keratophagy</a> or <a href="/wiki/Ceratophagy" class="mw-redirect" title="Ceratophagy">Ceratophagy</a>: eating <a href="/wiki/Keratin" title="Keratin">keratin</a>-based material, such as wool by <a href="/wiki/Tineidae" title="Tineidae">cloths moths</a>, or snakes eating their own skin after <a href="/wiki/Ecdysis" title="Ecdysis">ecdysis</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lepidophagy" title="Lepidophagy">Lepidophagy</a>: eating fish scales</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Molluscivore" title="Molluscivore">Molluscivore</a>: eating molluscs</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mucophagy" title="Mucophagy">Mucophagy</a>: eating mucus</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ophiophagy" title="Ophiophagy">Ophiophagy</a>: eating snakes</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Piscivore" title="Piscivore">Piscivore</a>: eating fish</li> <li>Anurophagy: eating frogs</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spongivore" title="Spongivore">Spongivore</a>: eating sponges</li> <li>Teuthophagore: eating mainly squid and other cephalopods</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vermivore" title="Vermivore">Vermivore</a>: eating worms</li> <li>Zooplanktonivore: eating zooplankton</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbivore" title="Herbivore">Herbivore</a>: the eating of plants <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Exudativore&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Exudativore (page does not exist)">Exudativore</a>: eating plant and/or insect <a href="/wiki/Exudate" title="Exudate">exudates</a> (<a href="/wiki/Gum_(botany)" 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<li><a href="/wiki/Algivore" class="mw-redirect" title="Algivore">Algivore</a>: eating <a href="/wiki/Algae" title="Algae">algae</a> (both <a href="/wiki/Macroalgae" class="mw-redirect" title="Macroalgae">macroalgae</a> and <a href="/wiki/Microalgae" title="Microalgae">microalgae</a>) <ul><li>Phytoplanktonivore: eating <a href="/wiki/Phytoplankton" title="Phytoplankton">phytoplankton</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Omnivore" title="Omnivore">Omnivore</a>: the eating of both plants, animals, fungi, bacteria etc. The term means "all-eater".</li> <li>By amount of meat in diet <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hypercarnivore" title="Hypercarnivore">Hypercarnivore</a>: more than 70% meat</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mesocarnivore" title="Mesocarnivore">Mesocarnivore</a>: 30–70% meat</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hypocarnivore" title="Hypocarnivore">Hypocarnivore</a>: less than 30% meat</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fungivore" title="Fungivore">Fungivore</a>: the eating of fungus</li> <li><a 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title="Cannibalism">Cannibalism</a>: feeding on members of the same species <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Human_cannibalism" title="Human cannibalism">Anthropophagy</a>: the practice of eating <a href="/wiki/Human" title="Human">human</a> flesh</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cannibalism_(zoology)#Intrauterine_cannibalism" class="mw-redirect" title="Cannibalism (zoology)">Intrauterine cannibalism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oophagy" title="Oophagy">Oophagy</a> or <a href="/wiki/Ovophagy" class="mw-redirect" title="Ovophagy">Ovophagy</a>: the embryo/foetus eats sibling eggs</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cannibalism_(zoology)#Intrauterine_cannibalism" class="mw-redirect" title="Cannibalism (zoology)">Embryophagy</a>: the foetus eats sibling embryos</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cannibalism_(zoology)#Filial_cannibalism" class="mw-redirect" title="Cannibalism (zoology)">Filial cannibalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Self-cannibalism" title="Self-cannibalism">Self-cannibalism</a>: feeding on parts of one's own body (see also <a href="/wiki/Autophagy" title="Autophagy">autophagy</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sexual_cannibalism" title="Sexual cannibalism">Sexual cannibalism</a>: cannibalism after mating</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kleptoparasitism" title="Kleptoparasitism">Kleptoparasitism</a>: stealing food from another animal</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kleptopharmacophagy" title="Kleptopharmacophagy">Kleptopharmacophagy</a>: act of stealing chemical compounds for consumption</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lignophagia" title="Lignophagia">Lignophagia</a>: eating wood, typically a pathological condition in some domestic animals</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paedophagy" title="Paedophagy">Paedophagy</a>: eating young animals</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pica_(disorder)" title="Pica (disorder)">Pica</a>: appetite for largely non-nutritive substances, e.g. clay or hair, sometimes in pregnancy or in pathological states, typically a medical or veterinary concern.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Placentophagy" title="Placentophagy">Placentophagy</a>: eating placenta</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trophallaxis" title="Trophallaxis">Trophallaxis</a>: eating food regurgitated by another animal</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zoopharmacognosy" title="Zoopharmacognosy">Zoopharmacognosy</a>: <a href="/wiki/Self-medication" title="Self-medication">self-medication</a> by eating <a href="/wiki/Plant" title="Plant">plants</a>, <a href="/wiki/Soil" title="Soil">soils</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Insect" title="Insect">insects</a> to treat and prevent disease.</li></ul> <p>An opportunistic feeder sustains itself from a number of different food sources, because the species is behaviourally sufficiently flexible. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Storage_behaviours">Storage behaviours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_feeding_behaviours&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Storage behaviours"><span>edit</span></a><span 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of abnormal behaviours in animals">List of abnormal behaviours in animals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ingestive_behaviors" title="Ingestive behaviors">Ingestive behaviors</a>, the physiological behaviors of feeding</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_feeding_behaviours&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-SahneyBentonFerry2010RainforestCollapse-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-SahneyBentonFerry2010RainforestCollapse_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation 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