An essay describing the filter feeding of invertebrates such as mussels.
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An essay describing the filter feeding of invertebrates such as mussels. This essay will be analysing the occurrence of filter feeding and demonstrating it as a unique adaptation for marine mammals. It will also analyse how filter feeding, combined with invertebrates such as mussels, produces a complex, yet distinctive foraging strategy. This essay will also discuss the features of molluscs and how they are adapted to use their features to aid their particular means of feeding, including the full process of how this form of consumption occurs. An important necessity for any organism is that they are able to obtain their own food. They need to acquire a sufficient amount of food, in order to, maintain, grow and reproduce. An organism's competitivity for survival is the most likely effect of what drove them back to the oceans. Returning to the sea meant that marine mammals had to adapt and evolve in order...


