What is mass feeding?

Mass feeding is one of the five strategies of feeding used animals to obtain food. Mass feed shows animals that eat pieces of other organisms or swallow them all. Other feeding strategies include filter feeding (used by different marine organisms, from krill to blue whale), feeding (earthworms and other animals that filter or choose from the soil), fluid feed (hummingbirds that feed on nectar or spiders that vacuum inland insects).

Mass feeding is one of the most common feeding strategies in animals, especially among macroscopic animals with whom we are the most famous. Many herbivores, carnivores and omnivors use mass feed. With the exception of several cetaceans (whales and relatives) who use filters feeding, almost all organisms by several inches in size are involved in mass feed, including humans. It is one of the most effective forms of feeding, especially on the ground- it includes it to go directly to the sourceOji food and knock out a large bite, then repeat until full.

Nebulk feeder would be organisms like Millipedes, which are feeders of deposits, and various detrivoky on the ground and sea that eat detritus instead of pieces of living or recently dead organisms. Some volume feeders, such as cows, are specialized in plant consumption and have large stomachs similar mainly to break hard to reveal grass. Others, such as felines and canids, are specialized carnivores, developed to hunt living organisms, kill them and consume fresh killing. Among the most flexible organisms, they use everything like humans, both strategies.

The largest historical volume feeders, sauropods, huge dinosaurs who lived throughout the mesozoic era, consumed tons of plant matter daily to maintain their huge volume. One sauropod, brachiosaurus , weighed between 30 and60 tons. These animals had large stones in their abdominals called Gastroit to crush the matter of plants and release their nutrients for further digestion.