Talk:Piscivore

Do piscivores include animals that eat shellfish and other invertebrate marine life? (eg. squid, crabs, jellyfish)--ZayZayEM 02:32, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

No. Despite the word fish being used in some of the names of the animals and the use of the word fish in words for acquiring them (fishery, fishing) there creatures are not fish. A creature that specializes in eating molluscs would be called a molluscivore.Pbrower2a (talk) 07:19, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

If an animal eats all sorts of shellfish, then it would be a "durophagus" animal.--Mr Fink (talk) 14:24, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Connection to pescatarians?

Seems like this article should connect to one on pescatarians, explaining similarities and difference(s)? Thoughts? - Sara FB (talk) 20:05, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Jaguar

The Wiki article on Jaguar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar does not describe it as a Piscivore, rather a more generalistic carnivore. I don't understand why Jaguar was cited specifically as an example of a piscivore. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SquashEngineer (talk • contribs) 18:40, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

The jaguar is cited in this article as an example of a carnivore that eats a significant amount of fish, to compare with other carnivores that specializes in fish-eating.--Mr Fink (talk) 18:49, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

Aren't cats piscivores?

Cats are carnivores, but they do eat fish. So they're semi-carnivore and semi-piscivore? 2A02:C7C:86F5:E100:5009:42E:6DBA:23 (talk) 14:46, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

First off, piscivory is a form of carnivory. Secondly, the list of living piscivores is limited to those carnivores whose diet is composed mostly of or only fish, so, only the fishing cat would be listed. Mr Fink (talk) 00:18, 2 August 2024 (UTC)