Talk:List of feeding behaviours

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Feeding and food seem like two differnet topics to me (a biologist). While food is what an organism consumes, feeding is the process by which the organism consumes food. There are many types of feeding, such as deposit feeding, filter feeding, etc. However, should this page be merged with the feed page that currently discusses the other uses of the word? --Mperkins 08:50, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)

food finding
There does seem to be some confusion. Feeding and Eating and Obtaining Food?? Not the same. So scavenging is not actually feeding. Similarly hunting and foraging are not included here and I guess should be some how. As for hunter-gatherers? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.246.69.184 (talk) 16:56, 16 March 2010 (UTC)


 * The whole page is very bad, and needs a lot of work. However, typically feeding refers to mode of ingestion (and sometimes more broadly to prey-processing such as chewing or venom delivery).  What you eat would be more along the lines of "diet", IMHO. Anyhow, I'll get around to a big re-write someday, but it might be a while.  Mokele (talk) 18:24, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Fungivore?
Is there such a thing as a fungivore? Anxietycello (talk) 19:14, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I see that this has been added. There's the alternative mycophage, but this apparently does duty as a synonym of fungivore and as a synonym of mycovirus. Lavateraguy (talk) 10:09, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

Exudativore
What about: Exudativore (exudativorous, exudativory) - "Feeding on gum and other exudates (that which oozes out or diffuses) from trees."

These are not particulary rare, e.g.: ("... dietary category that is remarkably prevalent among primates") - from:


 * The Evolution of Exudativory in Primates; Editors: Anne M. Burrows, Leanne T. Nash; Springer, 2010; ISBN 1441966609, 9781441966605; pp. 303.

Also common among possums (including sugar gliders). Sugar gliders also feed on insect exudates! (honeydew from aphids, and "manna" -> lerp: sugary structure produced by larvae of psyllid insects).

Possibly Nectivore is a sub-set of Exudivore? Does "exude" include "secrete" AND "excrete"? -- Will look into this some more. Note: there currently is no page for Exudativore - only Exudate. ~E 74.60.29.141 (talk) 22:34, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

P.s.: added to list ~E 74.60.29.141 (talk) 06:11, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

Teuthophagore?
Teuthophage/ous and teuthovore/ous would be the regularly derived forms, and are attested as rare words by a Google search. Teuthophagore is attested at a similar rate, but that might be a consequence of its use here. Is there a reliable source for teuthophagore.