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Circular dendrogram of feeding behaviours. A mosquito drinking blood ( hematophagy) from a human (note the droplet of plasma being expelled as a waste) A rosy boa eating a mouse whole. A red kangaroo eating grass. The robberfly is an insectivore, shown here having grabbed a leaf beetle. An American robin eating a worm.
A cognitive bias is a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment. [ 1] Individuals create their own "subjective reality" from their perception of the input. An individual's construction of reality, not the objective input, may dictate their behavior in the world. Thus, cognitive biases may sometimes lead to perceptual ...
Nutrition. An Amblypodia anita (purple leaf blue butterfly) gathering nutrients from guano. Nutrition is the biochemical and physiological process by which an organism uses food to support its life. It provides organisms with nutrients, which can be metabolized to create energy and chemical structures.
Food psychology is the psychological study of how people choose the food they eat ( food choice ), along with food and eating behaviors. [1] Food psychology is an applied psychology, using existing psychological methods and findings to understand food choice and eating behaviors. [2] Factors studied by food psychology include food cravings ...
Ethology is a branch of zoology that studies the behaviour of non-human animals. It has its scientific roots in the work of Charles Darwin and of American and German ornithologists of the late 19th and early 20th century, including Charles O. Whitman, Oskar Heinroth, and Wallace Craig.
Diet (nutrition) A selection of magnesium-containing food consumed by humans. The human diet can vary widely. In nutrition, diet is the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism. [ 1] The word diet often implies the use of specific intake of nutrition for health or weight-management reasons (with the two often being related).
Durophagy. Durophagy is the eating behavior of animals that consume hard-shelled or exoskeleton -bearing organisms, such as corals, shelled mollusks, or crabs. [ 1] It is mostly used to describe fish, but is also used when describing reptiles, [ 2] including fossil turtles, [ 3] placodonts and invertebrates, as well as "bone-crushing" mammalian ...
Behavior ( American English) or behaviour ( British English) is the range of actions and mannerisms made by individuals, organisms, systems or artificial entities in some environment. These systems can include other systems or organisms as well as the inanimate physical environment. It is the computed response of the system or organism to ...