BIOL 1902 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ruffed Grouse, Red Crossbill, Grater

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOL 1902
• Professor: Michael Runtz

Document Summary

Plants can make their own food called autotrophs; animals cannot: some animals eat plants. Every possible part of a plant can be food for animals. Some animals eat dead plant material detritivore. Other animals have the food brought to them. Clams are filter feeder; taking the food in the current. Blackfly larvae filter feed through lateral brushes. through clams in a year. Tongues also help filter the food from water. Hummingbirds have a long beak and an extensible tongue. Bugs have a probing mouth parts called stylets. Getting plant material into the body (ingestion) Slugs and snails break off plant tissues with radula, basically a little. Some caterpillars eat leaves from the inside called leaf blotch miner. Mammals use modified teeth incisors they never stop growing or self chainsaw. sharpen. Moose also use incisors on the lower part of their mouth to rip off plant tissues.