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List of feeding behaviours — 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 . Mosquito drinking blood … Wikipedia
Force-feeding — Force feeding, which in some circumstances is also called gavage, is the practice of feeding a person or an animal against their will. Force feeding of humans Force feeding is generally carried out by passing a tube through the nose into the… … Wikipedia
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Macoma nasuta — Taxobox name = Macoma nasuta image caption = image width = 250px status = NE Domain = Eukarya regnum = Animalia phylum = Mollusca classis = Bivalvia subclassis = ordo = subordo = superfamilia = familia = Tellinidae subfamilia = genus = Macoma… … Wikipedia
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community ecology — Introduction study of the organization and functioning of communities (community), which are assemblages of interacting populations of the species living within a particular area or habitat. As populations of species interact with one … Universalium
malacostracan — /mal euh kos treuh keuhn/, adj. 1. belonging or pertaining to the crustacean subclass Malacostraca, which includes the lobsters, shrimps, crabs, etc. n. 2. a malacostracan crustacean. [1825 35; < NL Malacostrac(a) order of crustacea ( < Gk, neut … Universalium
Fodinichnia — (IPA2|ˌfəʋdəˈnɪknɪə) are trace fossils formed by deposit feeders as they excavate the sediment in search of food [Allaby A Allaby M (1999) Oxford Dictionary of Earth Sciences.] . They tend to have repeated patterns (e.g. Chondrites ) or spreites… … Wikipedia
Acorn worm — Taxobox name = Enteropneusta regnum = Animalia phylum = Hemichordata classis = Enteropneusta subdivision ranks = Families subdivision = Harrimaniidae Protoglossidae Ptychoderidae Saxipendiidae Spengelidae Torquaratoridae The Acorn worms or… … Wikipedia
Common slipper shell — A live but washed up stack of Crepidula fornicata with a small chiton on the left; the lowest individual (on the right of this stack) would have been fixed to a hard surface. Scientific classification … Wikipedia
