Question

What types of structures allow animals to obtain (ingest) food?

Answer 1

There are varieties of structures to obtain resources or food:
a. Mouthparts that allow an animal to chew, tear and eat food and drink. These includes beaks, teeth, flexible jaws, tongues
b. The structures that allow animals to grab and hold its food are tentacles, pincers, claws and fangs.
c. The structures that allow an animal to consume food found in the water includes filtering structures in sponges, clams and baleen whales used for feeding

Answer 2

The way animals eat their food totally depends on the food they are going to ingest. Carnivores have sharp claws to grip tightly into flesh and have sharp teeth to sheer off pieces of meat. Birds use their beak while the amphibians eat their food by trapping small insects and flies by their long sticky coiled tongue. Snakes inject venom by its two sharp teeth called fangs. And spider injects venom only to paralyze their prey. Some animals like jellyfish use tentacles to trap their prey. Poriferans like sponges take in food through the pores.