Food-mass feeder

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Food-mass feeders are organisms (animals) that feed on body parts of other animals, using a number of strategies and feeding behaviors to acquire them. Examples of food-mass feeders are carnivores (feed on meat), piscivores (feed on fish), insectivores (feed on insects), ophiophagous (feed on snakes), etc. Specialized feeding strategies are predation, cannibalism, etc.

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