What is the filter feeder?
The filter also known as a suspension feeder is any animal that obtains food by filtering water for nutritious particles. Filter feeder examples include Mysids, Flamingos, Clams, Krill, Mushrooms and Whale sharks. The filter feeder uses a mechanism such as a filter basket or Baleen (as in Baleen and Blue Whales) to collect water prey, usually plankton (blanket for small water animals and plants) and sip it into the mouth for consumption and digestion. Filter feeders are connected to one of the four main types of feeding, the others are feeding of the deposit (catering of particles in the soil), feeding fluids (as in spiders and hummingbirds) and mass feed (as in humans and most other animals).
Feeding filter is a popular feeding regime between aquatic organisms because it requires only a small active effort: just float and let you come to your food particles. In the water, of course, there must be a critical concentration of food particles or filter feeder. FortunatelyFor filter feeders, oceans are full of plankton gigatons in all latitudes. If a water animal is not a filter feeder, it must be a mass feeder or lower feeder.
feeder filters range from very small (krill) to very large (blue whale). Because the Blue Whale is the largest live animal, perhaps even the largest animal that has ever lived, and other animals for food by feeding a filter, the blue whale is considered to be the largest living omnivals. A small filter feeder, Antarctic krill, rivaling human beings for the species with the largest biomass on the planet. As we can see, feeding the filter can be a fairly successful feed strategy. Some filter feeders, like some whales, can feed other filter feeders.
A certain type of jellyfish has an interesting mechanism that they use for filter feeding. Using a fine gripper network, catches small particles of food. Then tt tY these tentacles slowly turn the corkscrew to bring the prey to the mouth of the jellyfish. Because the tentacles of jellyfish contain stabbing cells, they paralyze small prey in contact.