History Main / StockAnimalDiet

* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheHedge'': RJ, much like real raccoons, is an opportunistic thief who gets the other animals to start raiding human garbage.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'': Around the start of the AgeProgressionSong, some of the gorillas are seen eating a pile of bananas before a young Tarzan accidentally falls on the fruit and ruins their meal.

* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': Splendid the flying squirrel is associated a few times with acorns, including trying to eat one in his debut appearance. Subverted with Nutty, who enjoys candy, despite what his name may suggest.

* In the ''VideoGame/AngryBirds'' game series, the Mighty Eagle can be summoned by launching a can of sardines which he will follow, unleashing total destruction upon the pigs.

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'': Mostly averted, as Po is a very indiscriminate eater, outside of a few incidents:

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'': Most rats are profoundly unfussy in their eating habits and will cheerfully eat garbage, which causes issues for Remi, who has a taste for fine cuisine.

* {{Leprechaun}}s often like to drink beer.

* ''[[http://www.furaffinity.net/view/671212/ The Nut Job]]'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeRqkTNDFRI flash cartoon]] from 2007 (no relation to the [[WesternAnimation/TheNutJob 2014 3D animated film]]) is about squirrels building HumongousMecha to steal their nuts back from a nut-packing factory.

** The gigantic ''Quetzalcoatlus'' was frequently depicted as a vulture-like scavenger in early paleoart, due to living in more terrestrial areas than the coastal ''Pteranodon'' and based on its anatomy being adept at soaring flight. The most common invocation of this was usually depicting flocks of ''Quetzalcoatlus'' [[CirclingVultures circling]] over herds of migrating dinosaurs, waiting for one of them to keel over from exhaustion so they can swoop down and eat the remains. Later findings suggest that ''Quetzalcoatlus'' would have been a more active hunter like a giant stork, striding or even galloping along to snatch up small animals with their long toothless beaks; nowadays, it seems ''Quetzalcoatlus''' TrademarkFavoriteFood has become live baby sauropods. And sometimes live baby ''T. rexes''.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Primal}}'': Spear is shown to chiefly hunt for his food and isn't particularly picky about his targets, whether they be large, small, aquatic or terrestrial. If no other food sources are available he'll even eat insects. One episode shows him trying to gather fruit from a tree so he's at least partial to adding variety to his diet when the opportunity presents itself though he considers spiced food to be unpalatable, seen when a women from a different culture offers him a cooked tuber.

* In the Bible (and the rest of Abrahamic scripture), dogs are (more accurately) portrayed as carrion eaters. Queen Jezebel in particular is depicted as meeting a messy end and not even getting the dignity of a proper burial because her corpse is eaten by dogs (as prophesied earlier).

* ''Literature/TailchasersSongs'': The JustSoStory for why dogs and cats don't get along involves a dog city with a monument made of bones. A sly cat knocked down the monument. Dogs will never let the cat species live that moment down.

** Creator/ChuckJones' ''Cheese Chasers'' featured Hubie and Bertie, two mice who, after gorging all night on cheese, realized that even looking at it made them feel sick, so feeling they now had nothing to live for, [[ICannotSelfTerminate they tried to get Claude the Cat to eat them]].

* ''Franchise/TheMuppets'': Kermit the Frog has been quoted as saying that time's fun when you're having flies.

* The standard fictional pterosaur is an eagle-like carnivore capable of carrying off a man, but in more realistic portrayals of pterosaurs, they're almost always depicted as fish-eaters based on the behavior of the most famous pterosaurs ''Pteranodon'' and ''Rhamphorhynchus''. Real pterosaurs ran the gamut of dietary preferences though.
** The gigantic ''Quetzalcoatlus'' was frequently depicted as a vulture-like scavenger in early paleoart, due to living in more terrestrial areas than the coastal ''Pteranodon'' and based on its anatomy being adept at soaring flight. The most common invocation of this was usually depicting flocks of ''Quetzalcoatlus'' [[CirclingVultures circling]] over herds of migrating dinosaurs, waiting for one of them to keel over from exhaustion so they can swoop down and eat the remains. Later findings suggest that ''Quetzalcoatlus'' would have been a more active hunter like a giant stork, striding or even galloping along to snatch up small animals with their long toothless beaks; nowadays, it seems ''Quetzalcoatlus''' TrademarkFavoriteFood has become live baby sauropods. And sometimes live baby ''T. rexes''.

Because [[BatOutOfHell bats are creepy]], expect bats in fiction to be of [[Bloodsucking Bats the bloodsucking type]] (and, if they speak, speaking with an eastern European accent, complete with VampireVords), despite those being a minority in the bat order (3 species out of 1,240) and mostly exclusive to Latin America. Rarely a bat will be depicted as preferring small fruits or insects, with those being more common in RealLife. The sole exception is in documentaries and educational series, in which case you can likely expect real facts and sometimes even AnAesop about bats being important to nature -- ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'', ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'' and ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'' have all done this.

Because [[BatOutOfHell bats are creepy]], expect bats in fiction to be of the bloodsucking type (and, if they speak, speaking with an eastern European accent, complete with VampireVords), despite those being a minority in the bat order (3 species out of 1,240) and mostly exclusive to Latin America. Rarely a bat will be depicted as preferring small fruits or insects, with those being more common in RealLife. The sole exception is in documentaries and educational series, in which case you can likely expect real facts and sometimes even AnAesop about bats being important to nature -- ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'', ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'' and ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'' have all done this.