Filtrating animals: What are and examples

Filtrating animals are those who They take the food they need of an aquatic mediumfiltering the watereither plankton, bacteria, detritus, tiny animals, plants and remains of organic matter. They are animals that do not have mouth structures like the rest of the beings that feed in a similar way to how we do it.

Interestingly, they are not just Aquatic animals Those who have this type of food as we might think, but there are also Filtrating birds and mammals and filter invertebrates.

There are three large groups of filter animals:

• The assets that are maintained laborious looking for food in the aquatic environment.
• The sesiles that because they are anchored to the sand they have to wait for sea currents to bring food they can catch.
• Those who absorb water while they stay with some of the food that it contains.

Ducks

Not because they are flying and inhabit in an aerial environment, birds stop being in this group. There are birds that live closely linked to aquatic media, precisely because they find food there. There are birds that, in addition to flying very well, are excellent swimmers, as is the case with ducks. The ducks are also flexible at the time of the food, as they belong to the group of filter birds of mixed feedingwhere sometimes they chew their prey with their tiny teeth And, on other occasions, they eat using their filter structures.

We recommend you read what the wild ducks eat.

Flemish

A very special case in nature are flamenco. Its pink color gets it from the algae you eatand do it by filtration. To eat, flamenco puts its head almost the other way around, on water. In this way, its upper peak that is bigger than the boy, clashes against it. The upper jaw is not staring at the head, so it has greater ease for the upper peak to move down and up, crushing the food that filters the water. Another way in which flamenco eats is moving its head rhythmically from one place to another and allowing water to flow in its peak so that it can keep the food that interests it. His tongue helps him in this process of carrying water in his mouth, so he can filter his food.

Here you can learn more about what the flamenco eat.

In this other article you can know the different types of bird peaks, among which are those of a filter type, there are many more.

In the world of filter mammals we can find great species such as Barbadas whales They have no teeth. Instead of teeth, they have some thin and flexible sheets They are made of keratin and are located in the upper jaw. When the whales swim, they maintain their open mouth allowing between the water, which they are going to take out with the help of their tongue, and will retain the fish of the right size so that in their beards they can be digested. Although they are truly large animals, their food is Small fish, small mollusks, Krill and Plankton. In order for these to be significant as food, they must be forming a heart or arrive in a large group. Some examples of these filter mammals are:

• BALANOPTERA BOREALIS or northern rorcual
• Marginata caperea or dwarf Frankish whale
• Eschrichtius robustus or gray whale
• Eubaleaena Australis o Southern Frank
• BALENAPTERA MUSCULUS or blue whale

Here you can learn more on this topic. Does whales have teeth?

The fish that are filters let the water in gills where there are structures with thorns and there They keep the food and expel the water. Among them we can find:

• Brevoortia Tyrannus or Atlantic Sabalo
• Cetorhinus Maximus or pilgrim shark
• Rhincodon Typus or whale shark
• Megachasma Pelagios or Boquiancho Shark

There are some Silver animals They are invertebrates.

• Sea sponges They are filter animals, because their bodies have cells with scourges capable of retaining protozoa and organic particles that serve as food. Here you will know more about the sea sponge: what is and characteristics.
• The Holoturiasalso known as Marine cucumbersThey are filter animals. They filter their water from the water, which are usually algae and tiny molluscs. Learn more about sea cucumbers: what are, characteristics and reproduction here.
• There are some filter molluscs, such as oyster, scallops and mussels. They can suck dirty water that comes with their food, and catch with their jow and the gelatinous gel that is there, the food they need to survive. The dirty water process it to stop being dangerous. The mussels instead take organic matter suspended in the sea and diverse plankton, relying on the cilia that help them carry the liquid with food inside their body. Know more about mollusks: characteristics, types and examples in this other article.
• The Krill and the Micidaceans They take the plankton from the aquatic that is their food. They have structures known as food baskets, where the food is trapped, so that it then serves as food.

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