Cannibals

A cannibal is an animal that feeds on others of its own species. This is not an animal unnatural
characteristics: around 140 different species show cannibalistic tendencies under various
conditions. Cannibalism is most common among lower vertebrates and invertebrates often due
to a predatory animal mistaking one of its own kind for prey. But it also occurs among birds and
mammals, especially when food is scarce.

In sexual cannibalism as recorded for example for the female red-back spider, black widow
spider, praying mantis, and scorpion the female eats the male after mating (though the frequency
of this is often overstated).

The more common form of cannibalism is size structured cannibalism, in which large
individuals consume smaller ones. Such size structured cannibalism has commonly been
observed in the wild for a variety of taxa, including octopus, bats, toads, fish, monitor lizards,
red-backed salamanders and several stream salamanders, crocodiles, spiders, crustaceans, birds
(crows, barred owls), mammals, and a vast number of insects, such as dragonflies, diving
beetles, back swimmers, water striders, flour beetles, caddisflies and many more.

Frugivore
A frugivore is a fruit eater. It can be any type of herbivore or omnivore where fruit is a
preferred food type. Because approximately 20% of all mammalian herbivores also eat fruit,
frugivory is considered to be common among mammals. Since frugivores eat a lot of fruit they
are highly dependent on the abundance and nutritional composition of fruits. Frugivores can
either benefit fruit-producing plants by dispersing seeds, or they can negatively affect plants by
digesting seeds along with the fruits. When both the fruit-producing plant and the frugivore
species benefit by fruit-eating behavior their interaction is called a mutualism.

Sanguivore
An organism which ingests the blood of other organisms as a sole food source. Although this can
refer to such beings as "human" vampires (the undead kind), it is more commonly used in
biology to refer to living, blood-consuming parasites or other such specialised organisims. The
most well-known of documented sanguivores are:
a) Vampire bats. Currently the only known mammalian sanguivore. There are three species,
though they make up but a fraction of the overall bat population. Nocturnal and unobtrusive even
to their prey, they sport specialised saliva and tongue structure, and are found in South and
Central America primarily.

b) Leeches, ticks, and mosquitos. These parasitic organisms are probably the most recognizable
of the sanguivores, again sporting specialised structure in excretions and digestive systems.
1: The vampire bat is a living, breathing sanguivore! It drinks blood to survive!