Thermodynamic Zoology

Answer:

COOLANT

Written by Aren Guralp and Thea Miller-Priddy.

We note that seven feeder contains a 3-letter animal whose names start with letters from A-G. Taking these feeders and sorting by animal name, they are

CHAPE
HELLOBEETIFUL
JUDICATORY
JACKALDOGHYBRID
HEELBALL
FLYINGACE
MARGARITA

Taking the number of bars on each cage as an index, we get

CHAPE
HELLOBEETIFUL
JUDICATORY
JACKALDOGHYBRID
HEELBALL
FLYINGACE
MARGARITA

This gives our answer, COOLANT (get it. ant. like the bugs)