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- Hairs cause loss of footing: marsh pitchers
- Walls keep insect feet from sticking: pitcherplants
- Filter feeding moves water: Venus flower basket
- Optical illusion may attract insects: titan arum
- Silk tricks insects: spiders
- Pressure allows movement: echinoderms
- Baleen plates filter food: blue whale
- Noise stuns prey: spinner dolphin
- Sound waves stun prey: bottlenose dolphin
- Lure tricks prey: bolas spider
- Lamellae filter food of different sizes: flamingo
- Specialized gills filter plankton: basking shark
- Glue protects from insect bites: burrowing frog
- Fins funnel food: manta ray
- Bristles and barbs capture minute foods: Calanoid copepods
- Net filters algae: salp
- Kidneys filter impurities: human
- Adhesive glues prey: velvet worms
- Joint aids suspension feeding: sea pen
- Electric organs generate volts: rajid skates
- Electric organs generate volts: electric stargazers
- Electric organs have many purposes: Amazon electric eel
- Electric organ stuns prey, deters attackers: electric catfish
- Detachable bristles immobilize ants: Polyxenid millipede
- Sensory mucous glands detect prey: platypus
- Bird bill draws food into mouth: sandpiper
- Extra jaws help hold, transport prey: moray eel
- Bill used to filter: roseate spoonbill
- Pouch scoops and drains water: pink-backed pelican
- Poisonous tooth shoots into prey: cone snail
- Malaria vector chosen as preferred prey: jumping spider
- Fine filaments filter water: peacock worm
- Radiating filaments filter water: fanworms
- Siphon filters seawater: sea squirt
- Hair-like structures filter fine materials: fiddler crab
- Tiny capsules trap prey: bladderwort
- Vortex stirs up sediment: phalarope
- Flexible stalk adjusts to flow forces: Styela sea squirt
- Body shape and position direct water current: black flies
- Snare captures prey: fungi
- Probing for food: copperband butterfly fish
- Tongue lures fish: alligator snapping turtle
- Sensitivity captures insects: Venus flytrap
- Toxins protect from predators: jellyfish
- Eyes give 360˚ vision: chameleon
- Mouthparts manipulate food: insects
- Beak holds squirming prey: eagles
- Light attracts fish: skimmer birds
- Probing mud for prey: shoebill stork
- Chin used to hunt: elephantnose fish
- Lure attracts prey: anglerfish
- Lunging after prey: dragonfly larvae
- Shooting snout snags prey: sling-jaw wrasse
- Jaws swallow eggs whole: egg-eating snakes
- Jaw swallows large prey: pythons
- Stalk structure improves feeding position: sea anemone
- Sand pit captures prey: ant lion larvae
- Silk used for various functions: spiders
- Fins taste by touch: gurnards
- Beak cuts up food: trogons
- Middle ear senses barometric pressure: Eastern pipistrelle bat
- Antennae sense heat of prey: Rhodnius bug
- External hydrodynamic lever increases force: archer fish
- Hunting in murky water: goldfish
- Hunting in the dark: piranha
- Thermal pits detect prey: snakes
- Receptors create thermal image: pit viper
- Whiskers sense prey movement: harbor seals
- Toxic blooms aid predation: dinoflagellates
- Light helps capture insects: glow worms
- Flowers selectively attract pollinators: orchid-flower plants
- Neurotoxins immobilize prey: scorpion
- Light used for camouflage: velvet belly lantern shark
- Organs serve multiple adhesive functions: camel spider
- Web glue is strong adhesive: golden orb weaving spider
- Structures catch prey: Portuguese man-of-war
- Sticky hairs capture insects: Roridula plant
- Symbiotic algae provide photosynthetic products: spotted salamander
- Bubbles enclose prey: humpback whale
- Flexible walls allow for ultra-fast passive suction: bladderwort
- Silk is strong, stretchy: Darwin's bark spider
- Skin incorporates chloroplasts: sea slug
- Venom induces paralysis in prey: cone snail
- Nematocyst stingers accelerate fast: Hydra
- Mucus filters trap particles smaller than mesh size: Pegea confoederata salp
