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* Today the "bears eating honey" is slowly being replaced with "Bears eating salmon", which is also [[Truth in Television]] as fish are a main component of a bear's diet.
** This came into play in ''[[Brother Bear]]''.
** Also in the ''[[Ace Ventura]]'' [[The Animated Series|animated series]] where the titular pet detective had to find the missing salmon after bears start attacking the fishermen.
* A within-universe commercial in ''[[Kiss Kiss Bang Bang]]'' had Michelle Monaghan's character interacting with a poorly CG animated talking grizzly for a fictional drink called "Genaros". Bear: "I'm for Genaros, but what do I know! I'm a bear! I suck the heads off fish!".
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wood
* This is sort of true, as beavers will eat the leaves, small twigs, and inner bark but not the entire log itself other than wearing it down.
* In
== Birds ==
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* In ''Ox Tales'' Audrey is an ostrich who likes to [[Somewhere an Ornithologist Is Crying|bury her head in the ground to look for worms to eat.]]
* In ''[[The Fox and The Hound]]'', the two bird characters are constantly trying to catch the 'fuzzy worm', who turns out to be a caterpillar.
* A running gag on the "U.S. Acres" segments of ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' was Booker trying to catch a worm.
== Cats ==
Fish, Meat, Mice/Rats, and/or Birds. Though they were originally bred to hunt mice. Of course, with fictional cats, actually ''catching'' mice or birds is very rare. They can have better luck with fish though, at least sometimes. Milk is also a popular treat for fictional cats, despite the fact that many cats can end up being lactose intolerant in real life.<ref>As with humans, though, feline lactose intolerance doesn't mean that it can't still be a highly desired foodstuff. One just does not want to be a bystander when it hits the other end.</ref>
* Claude the Cat, from the abovementioned ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' cartoon, was so thoroughly [[Squick]]ed by Hubie and Bertie he couldn't eat mice, and so [[I Cannot Self-Terminate|tried to get a Dog to kill him]].
** Similarly, in an earlier Sylvester cartoon, "Life With Feathers" a heartbroken lovebird tried to get Sylvester to eat him, but Sylvester wouldn't, thinking he was poisoned.
{{quote|'''Sylvester:''' (''caving in after being tempted''): I'll do it! I'd rather die than starve to death!}}
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* Sylvester the Cat usually engages in quixotic pursuits of Tweety or Speedy Gonzales that far outweigh any benefits of catching them.
* Played with in ''[[Warrior Cats]]''—all four Clans have some kind of territory-specific prey that they catch regularly. ThunderClan = squirrels, mice, voles and rabbit. RiverClan = fish. WindClan = rabbit. ShadowClan = lizards, frogs, snakes and rats. SkyClan specializes in birds, which they leap into the air to catch.
* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'': Hobbes loves tuna fish.
* For many pet owners, tuna fish is like cocaine to their cats. Unfortunate too, as it's not good for them.
* Cats also enjoy playing and eating insects
* ''[[CatDog]]'': Along with bones for Dog, fish was Cat's main motif throughout the series (in fact, half his house is made of a giant fish fused to a giant bone). Cat loved fish so much he once worked in the fire department simply because they had fish chilly at the time.
* An episode of ''[[Krypto the Superdog]]'' had the titular super dog hit by a beam that caused him to engage in cat-like behavior, including having a large hankering for tuna fish.
* ''[[Garfield]]''- Garfield loves eating Jon's pet fish, amongst all his other food indulgences. The mice part is averted, he won't even chase them. Too lazy.
* Cats are often also stereotyped as feeding on their owners after death. Apparently can be [[Truth in Television]]
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Corn
* The ''[[Barney Bear]]'' short "Cobs and Robbers" where Barney is a corn farmer and two crows dress in a scarecrow suit and try to steal his corn.
* An episode of ''[[Little Bear]]'' had a group of mischievous yet good hearted crows eating from Little Bear's corn field.
* In ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]'', crows come from miles around to eat the corn in the Scarecrow's field and mock him.
* Lord Commander Mormont's raven in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' regularly begs for corn by name.
== Dogs ==
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* In ''A Night of Fright is no Delight'', it is shown that [[Scooby Doo]] is not afraid of haunted bones.
* Some cartoons even show dogs hankering after [[Dinosaur Doggie Bone|''fossilized'' bones]], despite the fact they're made of stone and wouldn't smell
** Which was used in [[Pixar]]'s ''[[Up]]'', where one of Muntz's cleaning dogs was shown cautiously nibbling on his fossil displays when he wasn't looking.
* This is only partly true because dogs love ''chewing'' on bones, since the act of chewing relieves stress and boredom. Actually ''eating'' bones isn't the point, and can lead to throwing them back up if their stomach gets irritated from the bone shards. Many dog-owning tropers can attest to the fact that dogs will chew almost anything they're given. Or [[Why We Can't Have Nice Things|just happen to find]]. (They may be after the marrow ''inside'' the bones as well.)
* One episode of ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'' had a magical giant bone so irresistible to dogs they licked it until they died of starvation. Courage managed to escape this fate through sheer [[Heroic Willpower]].
* A [[Disney]] episode had Pluto try to steal a large bone from a sleeping lion in the zoo because his bone was too small.
* In ''[[CatDog]]'', bones are Dog's main [[Motif]] (in fact, half of his house is made of a giant bone fused to a giant fish, which is Cat's motif). He even once stole the bones of a [[Tyrannosaurus Rex]] from a nearby museum and when arrested, was eating the bones of dead prisoners, whose cannibalistic behavior horrified cat (although in the end it was [[All Just a Dream]] by Cat.
* Spike the bulldog from ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' loves bones so much that he's almost always shown sleeping with a bone resting under his paw.
* ''[[Son of the Mask]]'' had the [[Uncanny Valley]] cartoon baby trick the mask-wearing dog with an exploding bone, Looney Tunes style.
* In ''[[Sooty]]'', Sweep loves bones to the point where he can't understand why everyone else doesn't like them as much as he does. For example in one of the spin-off books he genuinely thinks an ideal birthday present for someone else would be an oil painting of a bone.
* The dinosaur bone joke was also used in an episode of ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures]]'' where Jade's pet dog, Scruffy, is accidently possessed by a demonic Japanese oni mask that mutates it into a gigantic beast. Before becoming completely taken over, Scruffy engages in typical dog antics, including stealing a dinosaur bone from the local museum and trying to bury it.
* Used yet again in the Candadian [[Gross-Out Show]] ''[[Mega Babies]]'', where a robotic dog is contructed to keep the trio of super babies company. Of course, the robot malfunctions, culminating in it causing trouble around the city, including stealing a generic dino bone.
* Bones are often a favorite food of choice for [[Krypto the Superdog]] and his super canine allies.
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* The [[Classic Disney Shorts]] "Working for Peanuts" had [[Chip and Dale]] trying to steal peanuts from an elephant at the zoo while trying to avoid the wrath of zookeeper [[Donald Duck]].
* Shows up in ''[[Dumbo]]''.
* Lampshaded in
* The elephant from ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'' went crazy from hunger after the zoo lost power and tried to eat lemur Julian because he looked like a peanut.
* In ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'', a film producer who has been working on a film starring the cartoon elephant [[Dumbo]] remarks that the best part about it is that the star is literally paid peanuts.
* A couple of Pay Day candy bar ads involved an elephant going after a hapless man's Pay Day bar, because it had peanuts in it.
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== Frogs ==
Flies, which they catch with their long, sticky tongues.
* ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'': Mr. and Mrs. Bighead (and any other toad) tend to catch any fly that flies around their vicinity with their tongues. Like real toads, Mr. Bighead also enjoyed eating other insects, including the ones that tried to eat his precious garden, and even kept a bug jail for future consumption (before Rocko saved them).
* ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'': Among the strange phenomenon plaguing Courage and his owners were a group of bullfrogs led by their king who invaded their house and tried to build a pond in their living room. They force the Bagge's to act like frogs, including catching flies with their tongue, and use Courage as a fly catcher by covering him in honey. Courage rids the house of the frogs by catching flies with fly paper, stapling the fly-covered paper on the walls above where the frogs were preparing to feast on Eustace and Muriel, catching their attention where they all get their tongues stuck together on the sticky fly-paper trying to get the flies, and then grabbing all their tongues and flinging off into a far away distance.
* ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]'': After being turned by frogs by a magic spell, Tiana and Prince Naveen fall under their animal instincts and try to eat the [[Comic Relief]] firefly, Ray. Tiana was even embarrassed that her [[Instinct Are Showing]].
* An episode of ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'' had a frog force a tribe of beetles to find him a fly because he's tired of eating beetles, and naturally they capture the fly member of the Rescue Rangers, Zipper.
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* One ''[[Popeye]]'' cartoon [[Non Sequitur Episode|randomly]] featured a [[Funny Animal]] goat who eats steel, and eventually eats an entire navy ship.
* A [[Daffy Duck]] [[Wartime Cartoon]], "Scrap Happy Daffy", has Nazis sending a goat to eat piles of scrap metal that Daffy was guarding for the war effort.
* Lampshaded in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "Lisa The Vegetarian". The family visit an amusement park that has a petting zoo, and Homer tries to get a goat to eat a tin can, but the goat isn't interested. Marge tells Homer that they're supposed to feed them from the animal feed stored in a machine.
== Hamsters ==
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Sugar (usually sugar cubes), carrots, apples, oats, or hay. Real horses will eat all of these things, but hay and/or grass makes up the bulk of their diet, supplemented with grain; the rest, especially the sugar lumps, are treats that should be given sparingly.
* Prince Phillip in Disney's ''[[Sleeping Beauty (Disney film)|Sleeping Beauty]]'' bribes his horse with the promise of "an extra bucket of oats. And a few... carrots?", only to irritably retract the carrots after the horse inadvertently clotheslines him on a tree branch.
* In some of ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' games, the amount of times Link can make his horse Epona boost her speed is measured in carrots.
* The old cliche, "Hey? Hay is for horses!"
* ''[[My Little Pony:
** Given that the local sweet shop is called Sugar Cube Corner, chances are this was deliberate.
* In ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'', the intelligent Houyhnhnms try to feed Gulliver hay to see whether or not he's one of them or a barbaric Yahoo. When he turns it down they bring him raw meat (which Yahoos eat), but he turns this down as well.
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* In ''[[Mousehunt (film)|Mousehunt]]'', the mouse loved cheese so much it devoured an entire cheese wheel that the two [[Butt Monkey]] [[Plucky Comic Relief]]s were using to catch it. In the end it became a string cheese food taster.
* [[Mickey Mouse]] averts this. In every cartoon, he's rarely seen eating any cheese at all. This is due to Disney's rule that Mickey is to never, ever be shown with cheese. [[Word of God|"Cheese makes Mickey seem like a mouse.]] [[Furry Denial|He's really not a mouse, you know, he's really more a human."]]
** In one ''[[House of Mouse]]'' episode, however, Mickey spent the rent money on cheese. Specifically, a huge wheel of it that he swallowed in one bite. Even on ''[[House of Mouse]]'', cheese is only ''one'' of the things Mickey eats, though. He also likes candy and sandwiches.
* In ''[[An American Tail]]'', immigrant mice come to America believing the streets are paved with cheese.
* The browser game ''[[Mousehunt]]'' involves using cheese to bait a trap, though the varieties of cheese are as weird and wonderful as the mice they attract.
* Rattrap of ''[[Beast Wars]]'' loves cheese, he even has a picture of one in his [[Heads-Up Display]]. Then again, he's not really a rat...
* In the ''[[Nitrome]]'' game ''Cheese Dreams'', an anthropomorphic ball of cheese is captured by space mice so obsessed with cheese, they use it to power their ships.
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* Inverted in ''Manifold: Origin'' by [[Stephen Baxter]]; when the advanced hominid "Daemons" (who resemble gorillas) want to reward the human scientist Nemoto, they try offering her a banana. She is understandably insulted.
* Subverted on an episode of ''[[Justice League]]''. The Flash offers a banana to a gorilla in a laboratory, before being scolded by a scientist. When the gorilla reveals himself to be the [[Mad Scientist]] Gorilla Grodd, he clocks Flash a good one and remarks, "That was for the banana. I ''hate'' bananas."
* Also parodied in ''[[Brandy and Mr. Whiskers]]'' where Brandy tried to use a banana to bribe villain gecko Gaspar's giant monkey [[Mooks]], who took offense to the stereotype (though they later expressed enthusiasm in finding bananas for themselves after they left).
* Inverted with [[Curious George]], who not only ate bananas, but anything else he could get his hands on (like a puzzle piece).
* Gunther, a monkey from one episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', likes bananas but prefers not to eat them since they remind him that he's only fully sentient because of Professor Farnsworth's experimental hat.
* [[Magilla Gorilla]] always ate bananas; he'd squeeze them at the bottom and they'd pop out the top and into his mouth.
* The original ''[[King Kong]]'' may not have mentioned bananas, but the now-long gone ''[[Universal Studios]]'' theme park ride ride blasted the audience with banana-flavored gas from animatronic Kong's mouth.
* Super-intelligent gorilla Winston from ''[[Overwatch]]'' loves bananas, but not as much as he loves peanut butter.
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Clams
* This is actually true as shellfish are a predominant part of a sea otter's diet.
** In ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'' Russel loved to eat clams.
* A Geico commercial saw the Gecko trying to explain insurance to an otter. He asks if the otter is eating clams, and then professes his own love for clams... Yeah.
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* Mrs. Brisby in ''[[The Secret of NIMH]]'' is afraid to go see the Great Owl because "Owls ''eat'' mice!"
* A [[Owl Be Damned|scary one-eyed owl]] chases the furlings down in ''[[Once Upon a Forest]]'', who are a hedgehog, a mole and a woodmouse respectively.
* Spike from ''[[My Little Pony:
* It's mentioned a few times that [[Harry Potter
* One episode of ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy]]'' had Billy's mother go on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] against a particular species of owl when she thought one of them ate her beloved snot-covered rat after she let it out to roam in the yard. In the end it was revealed by an animal expert that the owls could not have eaten her pet since they were vegetarians. It was actually [[Big Eater]] Billy's dad who devoured her rat.
== Pandas ==
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== Parrots ==
Crackers
* Iago from ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]''] averts this; but to his annoyance he's often force-fed crackers by the sultan even though he hates them.
== Penguins ==
Fish
* [[Truth in Television]] as fish is in fact their main food (although different penguin species eat different types of fish) along with krill and squid.
* The penguins in ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'' had several episodes involving their love of fish (for example making a growth ray so they can have more fish to eat, stealing a truck filled with fish when their diet of fresh fish was replaced with disgusting fish-cake shaped imitations, and defeating a giant monstrous fish in a nearby park lake then turning it into sushi).
* The entire plot of ''[[Happy Feet]]'' resolved around Mumble trying to find a way to get the fish back for the starving penguins by communicating with the "aliens" who were stealing it (actually humans).
* The cartoon baby penguin, [[Chilly Willy]], once tried to eat a stuffed sword fish when invited into the home belonging to a friendly dog and his owner.
* Sort of averted in ''[[Surf's Up]]''. Cody the rockhopper penguin (and presumably the other penguins) ate fish, but enjoyed the squid on a stick served on the island where the surfing competitions took place because it [[Tastes Like Chicken]].
* The Penguin from ''[[Batman Returns]]'' at one point greedily eats a raw fish, although he was a mutant who was raised by penguins when he was abandoned as a baby.
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Corn cobs, pigswill (obviously), and in the UK, turnips. Real pigs (especially wild boar) will eat pretty much anything, even ''their own children''.
* In one ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' "Pigs in Space" skit, the crew of the ''Swinetrek'' are distracted from finding the Ultimate Answer because the galley is serving "Swill Stroganoff".
* The [[Dennis the Menace (UK comic strip)|British Dennis the Menace]]'s pet pig Rasher can be lured places with turnips, and otherwise has his head in a trough of swill.
* In the ''[[Discworld]]'' novels, kids leaving out a sherry and a pork pie for the Hogfather also leave a turnip for the wild boars who pull his sleigh, as a counterpart to Roundworld kids leaving a carrot for the reindeer.
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''And what's with all the carrots?
''What do they need such good eyesight for anyways?
''Bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies! }}
* Subverted in ''[[Watership Down]]'', where the rabbits correctly eat grass as their staple diet, and don't even have a ''word'' for "carrot". At best, they'd lump them together with other tasty vegetables as "flayrah", meaning "princely food".
* Subverted in ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'', where the rabbit, Cuddles, is highly allergic to carrots.
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* In early episodes of ''[[South Park]]'', rats would always come to eat [[They Killed Kenny|Kenny]]'s dead body.
* In ''[[Willard]]'', the title character trains the rats in his basement to exact revenge on his overbearing boss. At the climax, he commands his [[Swarm of Rats]] to eat his boss alive. In the 2003 remake, the rats consume a live cat as well. And in the original movie, {{spoiler|the rats turn on Willard himself at the end, and eat him.}}
* In ''[[Charlotte's Web]]'', Templeton goes along to the fair with Wilbur so he can gobble up garbage after the place closes. In the film, this gives him an ''enormous'' [[Balloon Belly]].
== Sharks ==
Humans
* This one is especially unfair, given the relative rarity of someone being attacked by a shark, let alone actually being ''eaten''. Sharks can and do bite with deadly results, but it's because biting is their way of figuring out what something is. It isn't their fault humans are so fragile.
* ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]'' can almost fully be blamed for this stereotype.
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== [[Tyrannosaurus Rex]] ==
Triceratops, Sauropods, [[Misplaced Wildlife|Stegosaurs]], and when cloned in modern times (or happens to encounter time travelers), humans. [[Super-Persistent Predator|They're extremely persistent about it too.]] Many
* The ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' series, naturally.
* Though technically an Allosaur, Gwangi of ''[[The Valley of Gwangi]]'' really loved humans. He also developed a taste for elephant too.
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** Was a big plot device in an episode of the [[Animated Adaptation]] of ''[[Ace Ventura]]'', where eucalyptus cough drops were used to pacify a group of [[Killer Rabbit|angry Koalas]].
* Lammergeiers eat almost exclusively bones.
* If you see a lizard in a cartoon, chances are, he/she is gonna be shown eating insects and catching them with a long sticky tongue. This raises quite a few problems, since [[You Fail Biology Forever|the only known lizards to have a long sticky tongue are Chameleons]] and [[Did Not Do the Research|Green Iguanas are often used....who just happen to be
** [[Did Not Do the Research|not necessarily]]. Sure green iguanas can and usually do subsist on plants only. But they will actually eat meat if it's easily available and doesn't require too much biting. Moreover, pet iguanas go gaga for chafer grubs. Also, the iguana can make the tip of its tongue slightly sticky - simply by flexing the tongue the right way.
** A variation on this is that frogs - amphibians, not lizards, but regardless - will ''always'' be seen eating houseflies ''exclusively'', when in reality they're much less picky about the insects they do eat.
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