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What is an insectivorous dentition like?

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Chitin, sharp cones and blades, procument incisors

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What is a carnivore stomach like?

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Short intestine and colon small cecum

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What is a folivore?

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Leaf eater

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What are common adaptations in dogs and cats to aid foraging?

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Acute smell and hearing, binocular vision, dentition

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What is larder cacheing?

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Concentration of food at one site

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What is the stomach of vampire bats like?

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Long and tubular to store blood to enhance water absorption

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What is the main focus of fermentation in the hindgut?

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Short passage time. Focus on bulk consumption

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How are fishing bats adapted?

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Long claws

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What is a ruminant herbivore stomach like?

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4 chambered stomach, large rumen, long small and large intestine

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What is the sagittal crest?

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Top of skull to which the jaw muscles attach

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What kind of teeth do aardvarks have?

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columnar cheek teeth

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How are vampire bats adapted for eating blood?

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Bite contains anticoagulant to prevent clotting

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What is myrmecophagy?

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Consumption of termites or ants

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How is a koala adapted to its diet?

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Grinding molars, powerful jaw, enlarged caecum, small stomach, detoxifying bacteria

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What is special about the kidney of vampire bats?

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Can tolerate osmotic stress from feeding on blood

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How do dogs pursuit their prey?

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Social flexibility, opportunists

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What is the teeth of a mammal which eats ants teeth like?

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Peglike, reduced teeth

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What is coprophagy?

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Eating faeces or dung

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What is an advantage of a herbivorous diet?

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Dont have to pursuit prey, plentiful

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How do fishing bats find fish?

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Echolocation off surface

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What is unqiue about aquatic herbivores molars?

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Continuous replacement

19
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What is the adaptation of the pseudo thumb?

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Allows the pando to grip bamboo stems

20
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What is bad about being a folivore?

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Low nutrient content

21
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What is the pandas thumb?

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Modified wrist bone

22
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What other specialisations do ant eating mammals have?

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Extended tongue and snout, digging limbs

24
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What the carnassial shear

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Cheek teeth which allow carnivores to tear meat apart

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What is the caecum?

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Pouch connected to the junction of the small and large intestine

27
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What sensory adaptations do star nosed moles have for fossorial feeding?

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Eimer’s organ

28
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How do cats pursuit their prey?

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Retractile laws, large ears, tongue covered in papillae

29
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What is a herbivores skull and dentition specialised for?

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Grazing, browsing and gnawing

29
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What is an omnivores dentition like

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Versatile. Piercing front teeth, flattened cheek teeth

30
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What is a herbivores dentition like?

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Reduced canines, diastema from no incisors, grinding molars

32
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Why is surplus killing useful?

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Save food until it is less abundant

34
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What is an insectivore stomach like?

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Short intestine, no cecum

35
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What is stereoscopic vision?

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Perception of depth and 3D structure from visual information

36
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What is food cacheing?

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Sotage of food in locations hidden from the sigh of both conspecifics

36
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What is the main focus of fermentation in the foregut?

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Slow passage time

38
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How do frog eating bats use echolocation?

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Texture of frog’s skin to distinguish between toxic/non-toxic species

38
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What is a disadvantage of a herbivorous diet?

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Low energy. Need to take large volumes

40
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What is unique about rodent incisors?

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Continual growth

41
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How are sloths adapted to their diet?

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Stomachs with multiple compartments with symbiotic bacteria to break down leaves

42
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What is the function of the 3rd finger in primates?

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Tap trees to hear invertebrates and to probe out of crevices

43
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What is unique about a bats diet?

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Generalist and opportunistic feeders

44
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What is the function of coprophagy?

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Re-absorption of nutrients as it moves too quickly through the digestive system

45
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What is a nonrumiant herbivore stomach like?

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Simple stomach and large cecum

46
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What is surplus killing?

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Killing more prey than they can immediately eat

47
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How do Eimer’s organs help to forage?

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Detect structures and shapes. Fluid in each sinus transmits information to sensory neurons

48
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What is scatter cacheing?

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One food stored at each cache site

49
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What is the Ailurid radial sesamoid?

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Panda pseudo thumb

50
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What is a carnivore dentition like?

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Large canines, pronounced carnassials

51
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How are bats specialised for nectivory?

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Elongated snouts, reduced teeth, protrusible tongue

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What is viscous saliva?

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Thick, sticky consistancy for the break down of chitin

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