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Animals differ in their mouth parts,hence their ways of getting and eating food are different from one another...

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Feed would imply that the animal is a predator, 'feeding' off another animal.

Eating food would imply that the animal is a herbivore, eating plants and 'dead' organisms.

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most attack and eat there prey by mouth

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