What is Nutrition in Animals?
Nutrition in Animals means food eaten by the animals. Animals obtain their food f rom plants or from other animals (which eat plants).
Animals eat their food by different methods, let’s look at them
Describe various modes of feeding.
|
Name of Animal |
Kind of Food |
Mode of Feeding |
|
Snail |
Algae |
Scrapping(It scraps algae from rocks) |
|
Ant |
plant materials or other Animals |
Biting and Chewing |
|
Eagle |
Flesh of its Prey |
Capturing and Swallowing (It tears flesh by using its beak) |
|
Hummingbird |
Nectar of Flower |
Sucking (They suck Nectar from the flowers) |
|
Lice |
Blood |
Sucking (Sucking blood from skin of scalp) |
|
Mosquito |
Blood |
Sucking (Sucking blood from Human and Animals) |
|
Butterfly |
Nectar |
Syphoning (Sucking of Nectar from the flowers) |
|
House Fly |
Liquid Food |
Sponging (They spit out liquid on solid food and convert it into liquid and then suck this liquid) |
|
Starfish |
Animals covered in Shell |
It pops out the stomach through its mouth to eat the animal inside the shell |
