filter feeder

Reef Manta ray Manta alfredi showing two animals swimming with mouths open, filter-feeding. Illustration from “30 Animals that made us smarter” by Patrick Ayree (BBC Books)

Flipper of Humpback whale Megaptera novaeanglicae showing tubercles

Humpback whale Megaptera novaeanglicae shown side on. Illustration from “30 Animals that made us smarter” by Patrick Ayree (BBC Books)

Daphnia about to be eaten by the bladder of the carnivorous bladderwort Utricularia species

Greater flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus standing on one leg cut to white