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  2. List of herbivorous animals - Wikipedia

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    The largest living land animal, the African bush elephant, is a herbivore. This is a list of herbivorous animals, organized in a roughly taxonomic manner. In general, entries consist of animal species known with good certainty to be overwhelmingly herbivorous, as well as genera and families which contain a preponderance of such species.

  3. Category:Herbivorous mammals - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Herbivorous mammals" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. African buffalo;

  4. List of carnivorans - Wikipedia

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    Various carnivorans, with feliforms to the left, and caniforms to the right. Carnivora is an order of placental mammals that have specialized in primarily eating flesh. Members of this order are called carnivorans, or colloquially carnivores, though the term more properly refers to any meat-eating organisms, and some carnivoran species are omnivores or herbivores.

  5. List of extant megaherbivores - Wikipedia

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    The term "megaherbivore" was coined in 1988 by Owen-Smith to describe large mammals that performed similar ecological functions, such as habitat defoliation and extensive seed dispersal. Animals under are this group are K-selected , meaning they have high life expectancies, slow population growth, large offspring, lengthy pregnancies, and low ...

  6. Hyrax - Wikipedia

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    For many millions of years, hyraxes, proboscideans, and other afrotherian mammals were the primary terrestrial herbivores in Africa, just as odd-toed ungulates were in North America. Through the middle to late Eocene, many different species existed. [29]

  7. List of mammals of South America - Wikipedia

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    Sirenia is an order of fully aquatic, herbivorous mammals that inhabit rivers, estuaries, coastal marine waters, swamps, and marine wetlands. All four species are endangered. They evolved about 50 million years ago, and their closest living relatives are elephants .

  8. List of mammal genera - Wikipedia

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    Cetartiodactyla is a large order of hoofed mammals, the even-toed ungulates, and aquatic mammals, cetaceans. Cetacea was found to be nested within "Artiodactlya" and has now been moved into that order, whose name is now Cetartiodactyla. [2] Even-toed ungulates are found nearly world-wide, although no species are native to Australia or Antarctica.

  9. Sirenia - Wikipedia

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    The Sirenia (/ s aɪ ˈ r iː n i. ə /), commonly referred to as sea cows or sirenians, are an order of fully aquatic, herbivorous mammals that inhabit swamps, rivers, estuaries, marine wetlands, and coastal marine waters.