A frugivore /fruːdʒᵿvɔːr/ is a fruit eater. It can be any type of herbivore or omnivore where fruit is a preferred food type. Because approximately 20 percent of all mammalian herbivores also eat fruit, frugivory is considered to be common among mammals. Since frugivores eat large volumes of fruit, they are highly dependent on the abundance and nutritional composition of fruits. Frugivores can either benefit fruit-producing plants by dispersing seeds, or they can negatively affect plants by digesting seeds along with the fruits. When both the fruit-producing plant and the frugivore species benefit by fruit-eating behavior, their interaction is called a mutualism.
Seed dispersal is important for plants because it allows their progeny to move away from their parents over time. The advantages of seed dispersal may have led to the evolution of fleshy fruits, which entice animals to eat the fruits and move the plants seeds from place to place. While many fruit-producing plant species would not disperse far without frugivores, they can usually germinate even if they fall to the ground directly below the parent plant.
You think I don't know there's a spike in my eye?
It fell from a hole in the sky
Quite uninvited, refusing to leave
Now it digs in further and further
Looking for answers I know I'm a fraud
I know I can't win them all
I can't stand to fall
If they knew the things I'd done, do you know what
they'd say?
Lock him away!
I used to star in a one man show
I used to abuse the things that I know
I used you to get what I need
Now I see I was mistaken
It may have been I was stuck in between
What you say and what you mean
Not anymore!
All it takes is no mistakes
I failed one hundred thousand times over
Now I'm at your mercy
There's no doubt I won't sell out
If I had one more chance to start over
I am at your mercy
I've done things I'm not proud of
Things I don't speak aloud of
It's all behind me
Left to waste away without a trace