Diet/Legends

Diet referred to the sum of nutrition consumed by an organism. Dietary classifications included carnivore, herbivore, omnivore, silicavore and ergovore.
==Forms of diet==
===Plants===
Plants typically absorbed water and inorganic substances through their roots, and synthesized both nutrients in soil and sunlight.Alien Encounters Since they were capable of synthesizing their own food and served as food sources for consumers, they were referred to as producers.Star Wars Episode I: The Gungan Frontier Examples included the Revwien, Galaxy Guide 12: Aliens — Enemies and Allies, pp. 73-75 the bachani,Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords and the perlote tree.
===Animals===
====Herbivorous====
Herbivores were animals that fed on plants, but not other animals. Since they were the first in the food chain not to produce their own means of subsistence, they were referred to as primary consumers. Examples of herbivores included the o'cerry,The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force and hoth hogs.
====Carnivorous====
Carnivores were animals that subsisted on animal tissues. In the food chain, they were referred to as secondary consumers. Examples of carnivores included the Bogwing of Dagobah, the Dianoga, the Togruta,The New Essential Guide to Alien Species and the Rancor.Star Wars Character Encyclopedia
=====Canniballistic=====
Individuals who consumed members of their own species were known as cannibals. The practice of cannibalism applied to Marit traditions.Republic Commando: True Colors
====Omnivorous====
Omnivores were species that subsisted on both animal tissue and plant-based foods. The tauntauns of Hoth were omnivorous, primarily eating fungi and lichens, though they also ate smaller animals when necessary. Another example of omnivores included Humans.
====Silicavorous====
Silicavore referred to species that ate rocks and minerals, digesting organic material within. The Thanu of Kamur is a silicavore, though only when mature.Creatures of the Galaxy
====Ergovorous====
Ergovore referred to species that sought out and fed upon pure energy. Business owners sometimes enhanced their security by using these creatures as a way to keep firearms out of their establishments. Salla C'airam lined the entrance tunnel of his high-class cantina with underfed ergovores so that they could detect any hidden power sources or other high-tech weapons.Hard Merchandise
====Saprophagous====
Saprophages were lifeforms that fed on dead and decaying organisms. Examples of saprophages included the urusai and the gravel maggots.
===Other===
Other sources of nourishment were theoretically possible. For instance, some visitors to the Forest Moon of Endor speculated that the tiny Wisties fed on laughter and other positive emotions.The Illustrated Star Wars Universe On Skye, the guanomongers of the Entyrmion ate skingle dung.SkyeWalkers: A Clone Wars Story
==Energy flow and food relationships==
The scientific term food chain designated the feeding relationships among a set of plants and animals or the energy flow from a sun to living beings. Through the chain, energy would first travel from the sun to a plant, then from a plants to animals, then from animals to other animals, and then back to the soil through decay. On a related note, a food web was a way of describing the interconnected feeding relationship in a given ecosystem: vertically, it showed who ate whom, and horizontally, it showed who was in competition with whom for food.
==Appearances==
*Star Wars: The Old Republic
*Star Wars Episode I: The Gungan Frontier
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*Hard Merchandise 
*Star Wars (1977) 82 
*Boba Fett: Bounty on Bar-Kooda 
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Category:Biology