mention the various types of food habits seen in animals
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Flesh-eating animals (Carnivorous animals):
Some animals eat other animals. These are flesh-eating animals. They are called carnivores. They do not eat plants. Some flesh-eating animals are lions, tigers, snakes, wolves, etc.
Note:
Snakes eat rats which eat our grains.
Plant and flesh-eating animals (Omnivorous animals):
Some animals eat both plants as well as the flesh of other animals. These animals are called omnivores. Some animals that eat both are bears, jackals, cats, dogs, etc.
Humans also eat meat, fish, eggs as well as vegetables, fruits and nuts. So, they are also omnivores.
Note:
Monkeys are omnivores by nature. They eat a wide variety of food from flowers, leaves and fruits to insects and small frogs.
Have we ever seen a cow or a buffalo while grazing?
It swallows its food without chewing it. After, sometime, it brings back this unchewed food into its mouth and chews it properly with its back teeth. This is known as chewing the cud.
Animals that swallow the food:
Some animals like snakes, frogs and lizards swallow their food without chewing it. They swallow their food directly from the mouths. A snake can swallow animals which are bigger than it. Such animals have no biting or chewing teeth.
Gnawing animals:
Some animals like rabbits, squirrels and rats have a pair of very sharp, long front teeth to bite their food. They bite and gnaw their food with their teeth.
Feeding habits and mouth parts of some other animals:
Frogs have long, sticky tongues which they shoot out to catch insects that get stick on the tongue. A mosquito stabs us and sucks our blood its sharp hollow tube in its mouth. Leeches also suck our blood. A butterfly sucks the nectar from flowers using a long hollow tube present in its mouth. An elephant has a trunk that helps it to uproot plants. It also uses it to tear off leaves from trees to eat. Its trunk sucks water and shoots it into its mouth to drink.
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