Red-Tailed Cuckoo Bumblebee
The bumblebee that steals a colony
Animal Diets
Animal Diets
Learn about different animal diet types and feeding strategies.
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Featured Animal Diets
Learn about different animal diet types and feeding strategies.
Featured Animal Diets Animals
Weasel
Small body, fearless hunter
Chameleon
Eyes apart. Tongue like lightning.
Echidna
Spines, eggs, and ant-eating mastery
Cockle
Ribbed hearts of the tidal flats
Leptocephalus
Leaf-larva today, eel tomorrow
Agouti
The forest's seed-burying sprinters
Kissing Bugs
Night feeder, public-health sentinel
Scarlet Macaw
Scarlet skies, rainforest voice.
Giant Isopod
The deep sea's armored scavenger
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Carnivore
Primarily eats meat
+785
Detritivore
Eats decomposing organic matter
+31
Filter Feeder
Filters food from water
+33
Folivore
Primarily eats leaves
+44
Frugivore
Primarily eats fruit
+12
Granivore
Primarily eats seeds/grains
+13
Herbivore
Primarily eats plants
+331
Insectivore
Primarily eats insects
+251
Myrmecophage
Primarily eats ants/termites
+11
Nectarivore
Primarily eats nectar
+26
Omnivore
Eats both plants and animals
+1,036
Piscivore
Primarily eats fish
+96
Sanguivore
Feeds on blood
+14
Scavenger
Eats carrion/dead animals
+42