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Feeding

Feeding is the process by which organisms, typically animals, obtain food. There are many types of feeding that animals exhibit, including:

• filter feeding - obtaining food suspended in the water column
• deposit feeding - obtaining food particles in soil
• fluid feeding - obtaining food by consuming other organisms fluids
• food-mass feeding - obtaining food by eating pieces of other organisms

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