animal diet
What beasts eat
An animal diet consists of the foods a particular animal species typically eats, whether herbivorous, carnivorous, or omnivorous: Pandas have a highly specialized diet of bamboo.
In human contexts, an animal diet refers to eating primarily or exclusively animal products—meat, fish, eggs, dairy—as opposed to plant-based eating: He switched to an animal diet after years of veganism.
- meatAnimal tissue for food
- raw meatAnimal tissue, unheated
- carnivoryEating only meat
- amino acidsOrganic compounds forming proteins
- fishGilled aquatic vertebrate
carbohydrates · fatty acids · rumination · blood meal · fiber · hay · prey · predator · decomposer · filter feeding · leaf litter · salt lick · pet food · berries · grain · roots · grazing · worms
- wildlifewhite-tailed deer, birds, mammals, elephant, reptiles