Feeding

Question 1

What is an insectivorous dentition like?

Answer 1

Chitin, sharp cones and blades, procument incisors

Question 2

What is a carnivore stomach like?

Answer 2

Short intestine and colon small cecum

Question 2

What is a folivore?

Answer 2

Leaf eater

Question 3

What are common adaptations in dogs and cats to aid foraging?

Answer 3

Acute smell and hearing, binocular vision, dentition

Question 3

What is larder cacheing?

Answer 3

Concentration of food at one site

Question 4

What is the stomach of vampire bats like?

Answer 4

Long and tubular to store blood to enhance water absorption

Question 5

What is the main focus of fermentation in the hindgut?

Answer 5

Short passage time. Focus on bulk consumption

Question 6

How are fishing bats adapted?

Answer 6

Long claws

Question 7

What is a ruminant herbivore stomach like?

Answer 7

4 chambered stomach, large rumen, long small and large intestine

Question 7

What is the sagittal crest?

Answer 7

Top of skull to which the jaw muscles attach

Question 9

What kind of teeth do aardvarks have?

Answer 9

columnar cheek teeth

Question 9

How are vampire bats adapted for eating blood?

Answer 9

Bite contains anticoagulant to prevent clotting

Question 11

What is myrmecophagy?

Answer 11

Consumption of termites or ants

Question 11

How is a koala adapted to its diet?

Answer 11

Grinding molars, powerful jaw, enlarged caecum, small stomach, detoxifying bacteria

Question 12

What is special about the kidney of vampire bats?

Answer 12

Can tolerate osmotic stress from feeding on blood

Question 13

How do dogs pursuit their prey?

Answer 13

Social flexibility, opportunists

Question 14

What is the teeth of a mammal which eats ants teeth like?

Answer 14

Peglike, reduced teeth

Question 15

What is coprophagy?

Answer 15

Eating faeces or dung

Question 16

What is an advantage of a herbivorous diet?

Answer 16

Dont have to pursuit prey, plentiful

Question 17

How do fishing bats find fish?

Answer 17

Echolocation off surface

Question 18

What is unqiue about aquatic herbivores molars?

Answer 18

Continuous replacement

Question 19

What is the adaptation of the pseudo thumb?

Answer 19

Allows the pando to grip bamboo stems

Question 20

What is bad about being a folivore?

Answer 20

Low nutrient content

Question 21

What is the pandas thumb?

Answer 21

Modified wrist bone

Question 22

What other specialisations do ant eating mammals have?

Answer 22

Extended tongue and snout, digging limbs

Question 24

What the carnassial shear

Answer 24

Cheek teeth which allow carnivores to tear meat apart

Question 25

What is the caecum?

Answer 25

Pouch connected to the junction of the small and large intestine

Question 27

What sensory adaptations do star nosed moles have for fossorial feeding?

Answer 27

Eimer's organ

Question 28

How do cats pursuit their prey?

Answer 28

Retractile laws, large ears, tongue covered in papillae

Question 29

What is a herbivores skull and dentition specialised for?

Answer 29

Grazing, browsing and gnawing

Question 29

What is an omnivores dentition like

Answer 29

Versatile. Piercing front teeth, flattened cheek teeth

Question 30

What is a herbivores dentition like?

Answer 30

Reduced canines, diastema from no incisors, grinding molars

Question 32

Why is surplus killing useful?

Answer 32

Save food until it is less abundant

Question 34

What is an insectivore stomach like?

Answer 34

Short intestine, no cecum

Question 35

What is stereoscopic vision?

Answer 35

Perception of depth and 3D structure from visual information

Question 36

What is food cacheing?

Answer 36

Sotage of food in locations hidden from the sigh of both conspecifics

Question 36

What is the main focus of fermentation in the foregut?

Answer 36

Slow passage time

Question 38

How do frog eating bats use echolocation?

Answer 38

Texture of frog's skin to distinguish between toxic/non-toxic species

Question 38

What is a disadvantage of a herbivorous diet?

Answer 38

Low energy. Need to take large volumes

Question 40

What is unique about rodent incisors?

Answer 40

Continual growth

Question 41

How are sloths adapted to their diet?

Answer 41

Stomachs with multiple compartments with symbiotic bacteria to break down leaves

Question 42

What is the function of the 3rd finger in primates?

Answer 42

Tap trees to hear invertebrates and to probe out of crevices

Question 43

What is unique about a bats diet?

Answer 43

Generalist and opportunistic feeders

Question 44

What is the function of coprophagy?

Answer 44

Re-absorption of nutrients as it moves too quickly through the digestive system

Question 45

What is a nonrumiant herbivore stomach like?

Answer 45

Simple stomach and large cecum

Question 46

What is surplus killing?

Answer 46

Killing more prey than they can immediately eat

Question 47

How do Eimer's organs help to forage?

Answer 47

Detect structures and shapes. Fluid in each sinus transmits information to sensory neurons

Question 48

What is scatter cacheing?

Answer 48

One food stored at each cache site

Question 49

What is the Ailurid radial sesamoid?

Answer 49

Panda pseudo thumb

Question 50

What is a carnivore dentition like?

Answer 50

Large canines, pronounced carnassials

Question 51

How are bats specialised for nectivory?

Answer 51

Elongated snouts, reduced teeth, protrusible tongue

Question 52

What is viscous saliva?

Answer 52

Thick, sticky consistancy for the break down of chitin