History Main / StockAnimalDiet

* ''Literature/TheMeg'': TheFilmOfTheBook has the titular megalodon eat a humpback whale and its calf. [[spoiler:The second one]] notably doesn't target humans, though, only going into a frenzy among a crowd of beachgoers when they notice it and panic, exciting it too much. [[spoiler:The protagonists eventually kill it by cutting its stomach open, which causes its blood to attract all the other sharks in the area and eat it alive]].

* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': Sniffles, although his attempts usually backfire and end up in him being tortured by the ants he attempts to eat.

Flies, which they catch with their long, sticky tongues. In RealLife, of course, they are not picky eaters and will go after pretty much any insect they can get their tongues on, with larger species eating vertebrates as well.

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** In ''The Next Steps'' [[WesternAnimation/AngelinaBallerina]], Angelina and her friends have a fondness for cheese. In the "Dancing in the Moonlight" song, they sing about having "''some Camembert to share.''"

* ''WesternAnimation/AngelinaBallerina'':
** In the original books, Angelina's favorite food is her mother's cheddar cheese pies, and most of the foods mentioned are cheese based.
** In ''The Next Steps'' iteration, Angelina and her friends have a fondness for cheese. In the "Dancing in the Moonlight" song, they sing about having "''some Camembert to share.''"

* ''WesternAnimation/AngelinaBallerina'': In ''The Next Steps'' iteration, Angelina and her friends have a fondness for cheese. In the "Dancing in the Moonlight" song, they sing about having "''some Camembert to share.''" Also, in the original books, Angelina's mother makes cheddar cheese pies.

* ''Film/BedknobsAndBroomsticks'': During the animated soccer match, the two "medics" are two vultures who look hungry at the players and get excited when one is apparently wounded and they have the chance to go for him. [[NightmareFuel One can only wonder what they do with the wounded]].

* ''Film/EscapeFromThePlanetOfTheApes'': In a rare live-action version, this was amusingly subverted -- Zira is in a test room with a set of puzzle blocks that form a staircase. Hanging above is a banana. She completes the puzzle in about fifteen seconds, climbs the stairs, looks up at the banana and sighs. When one of the scientists wonders aloud why she won't take it, she replies testily "Because I '''''loathe''''' bananas!" (This is an InUniverse WhamLine, as the scientists had no idea the apes could talk).

* ''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper'': Subverted. When the airplane crew member walks into the 9th class section where Kermit, Fozzie and Gonzo are[[note]]Their boss Mr. Tarkanian didn't like them so he got them the cheapest area of the plane he could[[/note]], Fozzie says, "Oh, maybe they're bringing hamburgers." Played straight in ''Film/TheMuppetMovie'', where he buys a honey ice cream cone (and a dragonfly ripple for Kermit). In the first episode of ''Series/TheMuppets2015'', when Fozzie has dinner with his human girlfriend and her parents, he complements the salmon, and the father sarcastically comments "Oh, what a surprise, he likes the salmon."

Sheep, pigs, and people (especially little girls in red hoods). In RealLife, they ''very'' rarely take humans, but will eat pretty much any animal in their habitat, with a preference for medium to large ungulates.

Humans, or just anything that moves. TruthInTelevision for a few large species crocodiles (mostly the Nile and Saltwater Crocodiles), which cause more human fatalities than any other predator and actually view humans as a food source; in fact, they will take on any sort of prey of suitable size. On the other hand, when on land, most crocodilians are more likely to run away from a human thanks to their low-set eyes (all they see are the feet of some giant, who may be a danger to them). In the water, though, you're on their turf. In some states with a high wild gator population, it's illegal to feed them, as this makes them more likely to approach a human than run away.

Dead things, especially a lion's leftovers (despite the fact that lions scavenge off of ''hyena'' kills more often). This is a common misconception when it comes to spotted hyenas, which actually prefer to hunt prey than search for carcasses. Striped hyenas and brown hyenas, on the other hand, are indeed scavengers, and spotted hyenas have digestive systems that are still well adapted to scavenging, so they're more likely to eat decaying carcasses than other predators (which has made them very successful). In some works, hyenas can be seen eating bones, which is accurate in real-life. Though real-life hyenas are {{Extreme Omnivore}}s that also eat fruits and inanimate objects, fictional hyenas are rarely portrayed this way. Aardwolves, the fourth living species of hyena, are insectivores. They do not even eat from corpses or look for red meat, contrary to some sources.

* A few lesser known examples: Alligators love chicken, Crocodiles enjoy rats, and Caimans primarily subsist on fish. A fairly obscure extension for alligators is that they absolutely adore marshmallows. It's obviously not something they can live on, but they'll also eat fruit as part of enrichment. Like [[http://youtu.be/9xVwIuB-Xm4 watermelon]].

** The third film shows young pandas eating the dumplings and noodles he uses as markers on a map. He points his bamboo stick at one for a scolding, only for the young panda to eat half of the stick in one bite.

Carrots. Full stop. Non-FunnyAnimal rabbits are sometimes shown eating lettuce. Rabbits do like both vegetables, but mostly they eat hay or grass, and particularly love clover. Carrots also have too much sugar for them to eat regularly without causing diabetes (and they tend to eat the leafy part first). Darker works might portray hares as meat-eating rabbits however.

** In an early ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' episode, Ash meets his Pidgeotto when it's eating a worm. It later tries to eat his Caterpie, a caterpillar-like creature.

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': Before Mankey and Primeape's favorite food was established ([[VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonRescueTeam chestnuts]]), [[Recap/PokemonS1E65ShowdownAtThePokeCorral episode 65]] of [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} the anime]] has them munching down on bananas.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'': The hyenas are shown living in a bone-littered ElephantGraveyard and gleefully tearing into a piece of carrion that Scar brings them, but also averted in important scenes, as they try to eat the lion cubs alive, cause the stampede of wildebeests in which Mufasa dies, and eventually take down Scar.

* ''WesternAnimation/AceVenturaTheAnimatedSeries'': Ace had to find the missing salmon after bears start attacking the fishermen.

* ''WesternAnimation/AceVentura'': A major plot device in an episode of the AnimatedAdaptation, where eucalyptus cough drops are used to pacify a group of [[KillerRabbit angry koalas]].

* ''Gastornis'' (aka ''Diatryma''), the large flightless bird, was traditionally portrayed as a hunter of small horse-like ungulates such as ''Hyracotherium''. This is now a case of ScienceMarchesOn, as isotope analysis have shown it was actually a herbivore that used its powerful beak to crack open nuts or snap branches (though this has yet to catch on in popular media, [[RuleOfCool for fairly obvious reasons]]).

* ''Smilodon'', the iconic saber-tooth cat, is often shown hunting mammoths and mastodons, giant ground sloths, and cavemen. While there are kernels of truth to this idea, ''Smilodon'', much like tigers and lions, likely preferred large ungulates (as supported by isotope analyses) such as bison, horses, llamas, tapirs, and North American camels, while in South America, they also went after the native ungulates such as ''Toxodon'' or ''Macrauchenia''. As ''Smilodon'' was about the size of a tiger or lion, undoubtedly, its relationship with mammoths and mastodons would have mirrored that of extant big cats and elephants, i.e. they would have mainly preyed on young animals, while adults (due to their sheer size) would have been safe from predation, even sabretooths hunted in groups like lions (as some workers suggested). Smaller, bear-sized ground sloths like ''Megalonyx'' or ''Paramylodon'' could have also been on the menu, but probably not as much as ungulates, as there were powerful beasts with formidable claws (for comparison, the much smaller giant anteaters can chase off and even kill jaguars), while large ones like ''Megatherium'' or ''Eremotherium'' were off-limits for obvious reasons. And since ''Smilodon'' was native to the Americas, it only overlapped with anatomically modern humans (as in, not primitive cavemen) for a brief time (a few thousand years) and we have no evidence of predation, though it is possible that they would have attacked humans occasionally. Interestingly, its smaller, Old World cousin/ancestor ''Megantereon'' coexisted with much more primitive hominids, like ''Homo erectus'', ''Homo habilis'', and even australopithecines, and we do have some evidence of predation on our ancestors from South Africa and Georgia.

* ''Smilodon'', the saber-tooth cat, is generally shown hunting mammoths, giant ground sloths, and early humans. Scientists believe that the North American populations preferred bison, camels[[note]]Prehistoric camels were far more widespread and diverse than today's desert dwellers[[/note]], and horses, though it wouldn't pass up a mastodon stuck in a tar pit, given that ''Smilodon'' is the most common carnivore found in the La Brea Tar Pits. Woolly mammoths were not part of their diet as they didn't share the same habitat (the massive Columbian mammoths, on the other hand), but other species of sabertooths (like ''Homotherium'') might have hunted juveniles. For ground sloths, they would have gone after smaller bear-sized species like ''Megalonyx'' or ''Paramylodon'', while large ones like ''Megatherium'' or ''Eremotherium'' were off-limits. South American ''Smilodons'' hunted the local unique herbivores, such as hippo-like ''Toxodon'' or ''Macrauchenia'', which resembled a humpless camel mixed with a elephant, as well as horses, deer, and llamas (and maybe the heavily armored glyptodonts if they felt lucky). They also co-existed with the elephant-like gomphotheres, such as ''Notiomastodon'', though they most likely preferred to go after the calves. They never hunted humans as far as we know, but we do know that the aforementioned ''Homotherium'' was a contemporary of European cavemen, so it's not out of the realm of possibility.