* monkey
elephant
annelids
molusks * monkey
elephant
annelids
molusks
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
The proboscis, whether rigid or flexible, is a mouth part designed for feeding. An insect will use its proboscis to suck up its food. Call it a feeding tube.
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.
For Plants: Photosynthesis For Animals: Cellular Respiration
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Butterflies do not chew their food, but eat by their proboscis or tongue. The proboscis helps the butterflies to suck the nectar from flowers.
Insects.