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If you are going to consider creating anthropomorphic cultures, you should consider the diet of their closest animal kin in order to design their food culture. Here is a list of examples for some of the most popular animals to be anthropomorphized.

Wolf Diet (Omnivore) - Big game such as elks, deer, and moose; also eats earthworms and grasshoppers; will eat berries occasionally.

Lion Diet (Carnivore) - Zebra, giraffe, buffalo, wildebeest, gazelle, impala, tortoise, small crocodiles, warthog, lizards, mice, small hippos; lions will kill competative predators, such as leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, and African wild dogs, but rarely eat them; intelligent enough to trail vultures and understand their circling means dead or distressed prey.

Fox Diet (Omnivore) - Largely made up of invertebrates; rodents, rabbits, other small mammals, reptiles such as snakes, amphibians, grasses, berries, fruit, fish, birds, eggs, dung beetles, and other insects; foxes bury excess catches in the ground (such as under leaves, soil, or in snow) for later consumption.

Hyena Diet (Carnivore) - Primarily scavengers, as they can eat the bones that other animals cannot, but will hunt for food if they must; wildebeest, zebra, gazelle, fish, tortoise, humans, black rhino, hippo calves, elephant calves, pangolins, pythons; hyenas compete with each other through their eating speed; an adult male hyena can eat a gazelle fawn in less than 2 minutes, and a pack of 35 hyenas can eat an entire adult zebra in 36 minutes.

Monkey Diet (Omnivore) - Fruit, leaves, bark, stems, seeds, mushrooms, insects, and sometimes small animals.

Alligator Diet (Carnivore) - Young alligators eat fish, insects, snails, crustaceans such as crawfish, worms; older alligators eat larger fish such as garpike, turtles, mammals such as deer, birds, and other reptiles.

Nile Crocodile Diet (Carnivore) - Young crocodiles prefer insects and aquatic invertebrates, then later fish, amphibians, and smaller reptiles; juveniles and subadults eat birds, reptiles, gazelles, antelope, waterbuck, sitatunga, lechwe, wildebeest, zebra, warthog, hippo calves, giraffe, cape buffalo, elephant calves, cheetah (and sometimes more rarely lions and leopards); Nile crocodiles eat more humans than another other species; may also take adult hippos and rhinos if they grow large enough.

Basic Bird Diet (Omnivore) - primarily insects, worms, seeds, caterpillars, fruits, vegetables; birds of prey (raptors) are carnivores and hunt small mammals such as rabbits, rodents, and squirrels, as well as other birds; water birds may eat pond plants and small fish, and sometimes possibly amphibians.

Basic Snake Diet (Carnivore) - Rodents, rabbits and other small mammals, birds, amphibians, and insects.

Basic Lizard Diet (Omnivore / Carnivore) - Smaller lizards enjoy fruits, vegetables, insects, small rodents such as mice, rats, and rabbits; larger lizards require higher protein intakes; Komodo dragons have a highly infectious combination of bacteria in their saliva and take prey as large as island deer.