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  2. List of herbivorous animals - Wikipedia

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    Herbivores which consume land plants may eat any or all of the fruit, leaves, sap, nectar, pollen, flowers, bark, cambium, underground storage organs like roots, tubers, and rhizomes, nuts, seeds, shoots, and other parts of plants; they frequently specialize in one or a few of these parts, though many herbivores also have quite diverse diets. [1]

  3. Herbivore - Wikipedia

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    A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically evolved to feed on plants, especially upon vascular tissues such as foliage, fruits or seeds, as the main component of its diet. These more broadly also encompass animals that eat non-vascular autotrophs such as mosses , algae and lichens , but do not include those feeding on decomposed ...

  4. Florivore - Wikipedia

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    In zoology, a florivore (not to be confused with a folivore) is an animal which mainly eats products of flowers.Florivores are types of herbivores (often referred to as floral herbivores), yet within the feeding behaviour of florivory, there are a range of other more specific feeding behaviours, including, but not limited to: [1]

  5. Frugivore - Wikipedia

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    A Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) eating a fruit. A frugivore (/ f r uː dʒ ɪ v ɔːr /) is an animal that thrives mostly on raw fruits or succulent fruit-like produce of plants such as roots, shoots, nuts and seeds. Approximately 20% of mammalian herbivores eat fruit. [1]

  6. List of poisonous plants - Wikipedia

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    Tomato plants can be toxic to dogs if they eat large amounts of the fruit or chew the plant material. [38] Solanum tuberosum: potato: Solanaceae: Potatoes contain toxic glycoalkaloids, of which the most prevalent are solanine and chaconine.

  7. Carnivorous plant - Wikipedia

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    An upper pitcher of Nepenthes lowii, a tropical pitcher plant that supplements its carnivorous diet with tree shrew droppings. [1] [2] [3]Carnivorous plants are plants that derive some or most of their nutrients from trapping and consuming animals or protozoans, typically insects and other arthropods, and occasionally small mammals and birds.

  8. 101 Animals That Start With 'N'—How Many Can You Name? - AOL

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    This small marsupial has a compact body and distinctive reddish-brown fur that helps it blend into its tropical surroundings. It has a shy personality, and feeds on leaves, fruits, and flowers ...

  9. Liana - Wikipedia

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    Lianas can form bridges amidst the forest canopy, providing arboreal animals, including ants and many other invertebrates, lizards, rodents, sloths, monkeys, and lemurs with paths across the forest. For example, in the Eastern tropical forests of Madagascar , many lemurs achieve higher mobility from the web of lianas draped amongst the vertical ...