Name: Digestion in Grass-Eating Animals
Uploaded: 2019-07-19
Duration: 5 min 47 s
Description: Digestion in grass-eating animals involves the process of rumination. In this video, we will learn about the digestive system of ruminants and the importance...

Question

Name of animal	Kind of food	Mode of feeding
Snail
Ant
Eagle
Humming-bird
Lice
Mosquito
Butterfly
Housefly

List the mode of feeding in the given table.

Accepted Answer

Name of animal Kind of food Mode of feeding

Snail Plants, fungi and algae Scraping

Ant Sweet food particles Chewing

Eagle Animals (small) Capturing and swallowing

Humming-bird Nectar of flower Sucking

Lice Blood Sucking

Mosquito Blood Sucking

Butterfly Nectar of flower Siphoning

Housefly Any food Siphoning

Feeding refers to the process by which animals take food. There are various ways or modes of feeding like chewing, swallowing, sucking. Siphoning, etc. We chew the food and then swallow. Organisms who feed on liquid only, their mode of feeding is sucking. While in siphoning, insects suck the food from the substratum. Like in houseflies, saliva secreted by them on food is sucked together with food into the mouth.

Jammu and Kashmir Board Solutions for Chapter: Nutrition In Animals, Exercise 2: Activity 2.1

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