Herbivore

A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage, for the main component of its diet. As a result of their plant diet, herbivorous animals typically have mouthparts adapted to rasping or grinding. Horses and other herbivores have wide flat teeth that are adapted to grinding grass, tree bark, and other tough plant material.

Etymology

Herbivore is the anglicized form of a modern Latin coinage, herbivora, cited in Charles Lyell's 1830 Principles of Geology.Richard Owen employed the anglicized term in an 1854 work on fossil teeth and skeletons.Herbivora is derived from the Latin herba meaning a small plant or herb, and vora, from vorare, to eat or devour.

Definition and related terms

Herbivory is a form of consumption in which an organism principally eats autotrophs such as plants, algae and photosynthesizing bacteria. More generally, organisms that feed on autotrophs in general are known as primary consumers. Herbivory usually refers to animals eating plants; fungi, bacteria and protists that feed on living plants are usually termed plant pathogens (plant diseases), and microbes that feed on dead plants are saprotrophs. Flowering plants that obtain nutrition from other living plants are usually termed parasitic plants. There is however no single exclusive and definitive ecological classification of consumption patterns; each textbook has its own variations on the theme.

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Herbivore or carnivore: A new toolbox for the study of extinct reptiles (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

Public Technologies 08 Jan 2025
The exact time in the geologic past when reptiles underwent a dietary shift from insectivores to carnivores and herbivores is yet unclear ... The isotope ratios are lower in herbivores and even lower in carnivores.
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Climate Change Threatens Herbivorous Animals

MENA FN 28 Dec 2024
(MENAFN - AzerNews). By Alimat Aliyeva An international group of scientists has concluded that climate change is significantly reducing the nutritional value of plants, which could have ... .
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Mysterious 193 million-year-old plant-eating dinosaur discovered in China

Interesting Engineering 26 Dec 2024
Fossilized remains of a new herbivorous dinosaur species that lived 193 million years ago have been unearthed in southwestern China. Paleontologists from Yunnan University have named this newly identified species as Archaeocursor asiaticus.  ... .
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Natural Selections: Sand verbena uses grains of sand to deter herbivores

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Within-Region Differences in Growth Responses of an Herbivorous Coral Reef Fish to Local and Regional Climatic Processes (National Marine Fisheries Service)

Public Technologies 19 Nov 2024
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Large herbivores have lived in Yellowstone National Park for more than 2,000 years

Science Daily 31 Oct 2024
Large herbivores like bison or elk have continuously lived in the Yellowstone National Park region for about 2,300 years, according to a new analysis of chemicals preserved in lake sediments ... .
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Large herbivores have been living in Yellowstone for 2,300 years: Study

The Hill 30 Oct 2024
Large herbivores, such as bison and elk, have lived continuously in Yellowstone National Park for more than two millennia, a new study has confirmed ... large herbivores dominated the Yellowstone region.
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Green impact: Herbivores return after removal of weeds in Sariska

The Times of India 29 Oct 2024
After the forest administration began removing invasive weed species such as Cassia tora and Parthenium, which were detected in the core area of Sariska Tiger Reserve, the herbivores who has left some time ago, returned to graze.
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Field study finds using biodiversity instead of pesticides can reduce crop damage from herbivores

Phys Dot Org 07 Oct 2024
Researchers at the University of Zurich have conducted a comprehensive field study showing that damage from herbivores can be reduced by using biodiversity within a plant species ... Up to 25% less herbivore damage.

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