Food Habits and Mouth Parts

Food Habits and Mouth Parts. By:Mathumitha.V Lets Learn and Enjoy.

Food Habits and Mouth Parts. HERBIVORES The mouth parts of an animal are adapted to the food it eats .Cows and goats are Herbivores; they can eat only plants .They need sharp INCISORS to cut up plants and leaves. They have broad MOLARS to grind their food .Rabbits, squirrels and mice hold their food which they cut into small pieces using their sharp INCISORS ..

Food Habits and Mouth Parts. CARNIVORES Carnivores are flesh eating animals; they need sharp pointed canine teeth these help them to tear flesh.

Food Habits and Mouth Parts. OMNIVORES Omnivores are those animals which eat both plants and meat .They need incisors, canines as well as molars..

Food Habits and Mouth Parts. – are also carnivores but they do not use their teeth to tear apart of their prey .Their curved and sharp teeth are hallow poison fangs. They are like injection syringes .When the snake bites its prey ,a few drops of poison are squeezed. Frogs have long sticky tongues. These are usually curled Inside the frogs mouth .They can uncurl it and shoot to catch insects.