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Acanthocephala terminalis
Filter Feeder
201 objects
Discover amazing animals that filter their food right from the water! They have special ways to strain tiny bits of plants or other creatures to eat.
Filter feeders obtain nutrients by straining suspended food particles and small organisms from water.
Objects with this trait
Browse every object currently tagged with this trait.
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Amano Shrimp
American Avocet
American Flamingo
American Gizzard Shad
American White Pelican
American Wigeon
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Anas flavirostris oxyptera
Anthopleura elegantissima
Atlantic Ribbed Mussel
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Aurelia aurita
Australian Pelican
Banana Slug
Bare-faced Ibis
Barnacle
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Barrow's Goldeneye
Basking Shark
Beluga Whale
Bigmouth buffalo
Black Flies
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Black Swan
Black-necked Swan
Blue Mussel
Blue Whale
Blue-winged Teal
Bonaparte's Gull
Bowhead Whale
Brandt's Cormorant
Brazilian Teal
Bufflehead
Burrowing Mayflies
Caddisflies
Caddisfly
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Cape Teal
Carp
Cave Crayfish
Chain Tunicate
Chilean Flamingo
Chironomini
Chironomus
Chrysaora quinquecirrha
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Cinnamon Teal
Cipangopaludina
Clark's Grebe
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Cleaner Fish
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Comb Duck
Common Atlantic Slippersnail
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Common Eider
Common Goldeneye
Common Greenshank
Common Minke Whale
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Common Moorhen
Common Shelduck
Coquina
Corydoras Catfish
Crystal Jelly
Curly-Leaf Pondweed
Dalmatian Pelican
Devil Ray
Eastern Elliptio
Eastern Oyster
Eccentric Sand Dollar
Ecdyonurus
Egg-Yolk Jelly
Eurasian Coot
Eurasian Greater Water Boatman
Eurasian Spoonbill
Eurasian Wigeon
European Flat Oyster
Fatmucket
Fin Whale
Fingernet Caddisflies
Flamingos
Fragile Papershell
Gadwall
Ghost Shrimp
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Giant Floater
Giant Green Anemone
Giant Mayflies
Giant Plumose Anemone
Giraffe Catfish
Glossy Ibis
Golden Shiner
Gooseneck Barnacle
Grass Carp
Great Cormorant
Great White Pelican
Greater Adjutant
Greater Duckweed
Greater Flamingo
Greater Scaup
Guano Beetle
Hamerkop
Harpella forficella
Humpback Whale
Island Apple Snail
Knob-billed Duck
Krill
Leafy Hornmouth
Leatherback Sea Turtle
Leech
Lesser Flamingo
Lesser Scaup
Limpet
Little Grebe
Little Gull
Long-billed Dowitcher
Magnificent Bryozoan
Mandarin Duck
Manta Ray
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Marbled Green
Mayflies
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Megasternum
Minke Whale
Mnemiopsis leidyi
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Moonglow Anemone
Mytilus californianus
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Neotropic Cormorant