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the wheel's spinning but the hamster's dead



filter feeding, in zoology, a form of food procurement in which food particles or small organisms are randomly strained from water. Filter feeding is found primarily among the small- to medium-sized invertebrates but occurs in a few large vertebrates (e.g., flamingos, baleen whales).
They bring in water through one opening (the “incurrent siphon”), pump it through the filter to remove microscopic food particles, and discharge it through another opening (the “excurrent siphon”). The food particles are moved from the filter itself to the animal's mouth by specialized cell processes called cilia.