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Feeding
Feeding
is the process by which organisms, typically animals, obtain
food
. There are many types of feeding that animals exhibit, including:
filter feeding
- obtaining food suspended in the water column
deposit feeding
- obtaining food particles in soil
fluid feeding
- obtaining food by consuming other organisms fluids
food-mass feeding
- obtaining food by eating pieces of other organisms