What Do They Eat? (1971)

Synopsis: An Encyclopaedia Britannica short educational film featuring footage of animals and what they eat.

Kitty Cameo: The non-narrated footage features a variety of insects eating plants, insects eating other insects, frogs eating bugs, snakes eating frogs, and even a dog eating a bone. A robin feeds the chicks in her nest. Then a longhair brown and white tabby cat shows up at the foot of the tree.

What Do They Eat? - longhair brown and white tabby cat at foot of tree
What Do They Eat? - longhair brown and white tabby cat at foot of tree

The cat climbs into the tree with the nest but the robin attacks and chases the cat away. The cat climbs back down the tree, defeated.

What Do They Eat? - longhair brown and white tabby cat climbing down from tree

Final Mewsings: No fair! Everyone got to eat but the cat!

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