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Filter feeder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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These thirteen species of filter-feeding elasmobranch are not particularly closely related, representing four separate evolutionary lineages. ... Elasmobranch filter-feeding mechanisms can be conveniently divided into two categories: 1) modified gill rakers and, 2) spongy elaboration of the gill bars.
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a method of feeding where small food particles are filtered from the surrounding water by various mechanisms. Used mainly by aquatic invertebrates, especially plankton, but also by baleen whales...
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How a filter feeder obtains food ... How a filter feeder creates a feeding current ... Filter feeding mollusc...
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Baleen whales are huge, harmless filter-feeders. But 25 million years ago, a very different baleen specimen was terrorising the seas off Australia, tearing at its prey with large teeth. ... And it had a large set of teeth with no evidence of the comb-like fringes used by other baleen whales to filter their food from seawater.
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To visualize the particle retention behavior involved in filter feeding, adult animals were held in chilled seawater under low light and fed food coloring and fluorescent particles. The behavior was recorded by videography.
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Ackerman, J.D., 1999. Effect of Velocity on the Filter Feeding of Dreissenid Mussels (Dreissena polymorpha and Dreissena bugensis): Implications for Trophic Dynamics, University of Northern British Columbia.
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Put a description of the page here ... Despite the apparent simplicity of its filter-feeding mechanism, the Basking Shark may be a highly selective feeder — studies in the North Atlantic show that its diet consists almost entirely of copepods of the genus Calanus.
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