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what insects or animals procure their food with their proboscis
Butterflies.
Animals hunt, fish , forage or steal it from others to procure there food ... Humans are the only animals the grow there food ...
There are three definitions. 1. Mammals with long flexible snout...like a taper, elephant etc. 2. insects with long tubular sucking mouths...like mosquitoes. 3. noses that are prominent...proboscis monkies and humans that have big noses
This is a vague usage of words, for all animals that have a nose have a proboscis, technically speaking. But if you mean animals that use a long protruding mouth part that sucks or pierces and sucks, it could be various insects like mosquitoes, butterflies, and assassin bugs. And even elephants can somewhat fall into this category.
Insects have a proboscis, a long, tubular mouthpart, for feeding on liquids like nectar, sap, or blood. It allows them to access food sources that they couldn't otherwise reach with their mandibles. The proboscis can be adapted for various feeding habits, depending on the species.
Liquids or semi liquids are the main foods of animals with a proboscis. Nectar, sap and blood are examples.
Here are a few examples of body parts animals use to eat food with, jaws and mandible's , teeth or baleen, tongues and rasps, proboscis and suckers, beaks ,and bills. Some animals even go so far as to "eat" their food outside of the body such as jellyfish or starfish.
A housefly eats almost anything it lands on by using its proboscis. Lizards, depending on size and type, eat insects, plants, small animals, or fish by biting, chewing and swallowing. Snails eat plants using the thousands of tiny teeth located on their ribbon like tongues to rip apart food. Depending on the type of ant, they eat fruit, meat and vegetables, using pinchers to break the food down. Crows eat insects, berries, road kill, corn and seeds by pecking. Dogs eat do food by biting, chewing and swallowing. A frog uses its sticky tongue to eat insects by hurling it out to catch them and swallow them. Depending on the type of leech, they eat blood, insects or mollusks with protrusible proboscis or eating their prey whole.
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Insects acquire their food through various methods such as feeding on plants, other insects, decaying matter, or by sucking blood from animals. They use their specialized mouthparts to consume and digest their food.