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Like all filter feeders, vertebrate filter feeders obtain food by filtering suspended food particles from water. The vertebrate filter feeders include various fish, flamingos, and baleen whales. Baleen whales use the baleen plates in their mouths to filter food, such as plankton and fish, from water.
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What is food that filter feeders eat a lot?
Most filter feeders eat plankton or zooplankton. Filter feeders can include sponges, herring fish, and baleen whales. Filter feeders obtain their food by straining food particles or organisms from the water around them
Is a piranha is an example of filter feeders?
No, filter feeders in general do not have teeth. Piranha do not filter their food.
How are filter feeders and fluid feeders?
Filter feeders and fluid feeders are alike in a great number of ways. These animals both sift for food to eat.
How are filter feeders and fluid feeders alike?
Filter feeders and fluid feeders are alike in a great number of ways. These animals both sift for food to eat.
Why are referred to as filter feeders?
Because they have no head nor do they have a Radula. They obtain their nutrients by capturing their food in the mucus covering their gills, filtering it out of the water.
Why are clams referred to as filter feeders?
Because they have no head nor do they have a Radula. They obtain their nutrients by capturing their food in the mucus covering their gills, filtering it out of the water.
How do tunicates and lancelets get their food?
They're filter feeders
What type of feeder is the clam?
A clam is a type of feeder known as a filter feeder. Filter feeders strain particles like food from the water using an internal filtering system.
Why are mollusk called filter feeders?
Because they suck in water and filter food particles out of it.
1.What special feature does a baleen whale have to let it eat the food it eat the food it wants?
Baleen Whales filter their food. They are filter feeders. They take in a lot of water and their baleen plates filter the food from the water.
How do gray whales get their food?
Some whales use filter feeders.
Three kinds of animals that use filter feeding to get food?
Filter feeders are also known as suspension feeders and are most commonly aquatic animals or birds. Three examples of filter feeding animals are flamingos, clams, and sponges.
