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Feeding is the process by which organisms, typically animals, obtain food. Terminology often uses either the suffix -vore from Latin vorare, meaning 'to devour', or phagy, from Greek φαγειν, meaning 'to eat'.
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Polyphagy is the ability of an animal to eat a variety of food, whereas monophagy is the intolerance of every food except of one specific type (see generalist and specialist species).
By mode of ingestion
- filter feeding - obtaining nutrients from particles suspended in water
- deposit feeding - obtaining nutrients from particles suspended in soil
- fluid feeding - obtaining nutrients by consuming other organisms' fluids
- bulk feeding - obtaining nutrients by eating all of an organism
- Ram feeding and Suction feeding - ingesting prey via the fluids around it.
By mode of digestion
- Extra-cellular digestion - excreting digesting enzymes and then reabsorbing the products
- Myzocytosis - one cell pierces another using a feeding tube, and sucks out cytoplasm
- Phagocytosis - engulfing food matter into living cells, where it is digested
By food type
Another classification refers to the specific food animals specialize in eating, such as:
- Carnivore - the eating of animals
- Hematophagy - eating blood
- Insectivore - eating insects
- Myrmecophagy - eating ants and/or termites
- Lepidophagy - eating fish scales
- Man-eater - eating humans
- Molluscivore - eating molluscs
- Mucophagy - eating mucus
- Ophiophagy - eating snakes
- Piscivore - eating fish
- Spongivore - eating sponges
- Herbivore - the eating of plants
- Folivore - eating leaves
- Frugivore - eating fruits
- Graminivore - eating grasses
- Granivore - eating seeds
- Nectarivore - eating nectar
- Palynivore - eating pollen
- Xylophagy - eating wood
- Omnivore - the eating of both plants and animals
- Fungivore - the eating of fungus
- Bacterivore - the eating of bacteria
The eating of non-living or decaying matter:
