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  2. Herbivore - Wikipedia

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    A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically evolved to feed ... Flowering plants that obtain nutrition from other living plants are usually termed ...

  3. Monogastric - Wikipedia

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    Herbivores with monogastric digestion can digest cellulose in their diets by way of symbiotic gut bacteria. However, their ability to extract energy from cellulose digestion is less efficient than in ruminants. [2] Herbivores digest cellulose by microbial fermentation.

  4. List of herbivorous animals - Wikipedia

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    Herbivory is of extreme ecological importance and prevalence among insects.Perhaps one third (or 500,000) of all described species are herbivores. [4] Herbivorous insects are by far the most important animal pollinators, and constitute significant prey items for predatory animals, as well as acting as major parasites and predators of plants; parasitic species often induce the formation of galls.

  5. Food - Wikipedia

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    [82] [83] The digestive systems of herbivores and carnivores are very different as plant matter is harder to digest. Carnivores mouths are designed for tearing and biting compared to the grinding action found in herbivores. [84] Herbivores however have comparatively longer digestive tracts and larger stomachs to aid in digesting the cellulose ...

  6. Nutrition - Wikipedia

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    Nutrition is the biochemical and physiological process by which an organism ... Many herbivores rely on bacterial fermentation to create digestible nutrients from ...

  7. 20 iconic Christmas movie foods ranked according to nutrition

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    Then, nutrition information was pulled from the Department of Agriculture FoodData Central and Nutritionix to calculate the number of calories, protein, fiber, sugar, and fat (saturated and ...

  8. List of feeding behaviours - Wikipedia

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    Circular dendrogram of feeding behaviours A mosquito drinking blood (hematophagy) from a human (note the droplet of plasma being expelled as a waste) A rosy boa eating a mouse whole A red kangaroo eating grass The robberfly is an insectivore, shown here having grabbed a leaf beetle An American robin eating a worm Hummingbirds primarily drink nectar A krill filter feeding A Myrmicaria brunnea ...

  9. Graminivore - Wikipedia

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    A graminivore is a herbivorous animal that feeds primarily on grass, [1] specifically "true" grasses, plants of the family Poaceae (also known as Graminae). Graminivory is a form of grazing.