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well im doin this project nd i need a list of what herbivores eat can some1 plz help me i would make a bigger favor!!!! IM SIRIOUS!!!

2007-04-29 16:21:45 · 10 answers · asked by teres m 1 in Food & Drink Vegetarian & Vegan

10 answers

You're funny. I'm dying from laughter.

Herbivore means 'plant eater'--ergo, herbivores eat PLANTS. Since no specific herbivore was named it would be difficult, if not impossible, to list every plant on the planet (I'm sure every plant out there feeds some herbivore). You didn't even narrow down the area to a specific region.

2007-04-29 16:26:14 · answer #1 · answered by shoujomaniac101 5 · 2 0

Well, to answer you safely,
Herbivores are they that eat herbs, plants, shrubs, fruits, vegetables, grass, leaves of some trees like eucalyptus and horseradish, and other plant products...
They have a different jaw structure than those of the carnivores...
But not all herbivores eat only plant based diets... Some also eat insects which are included in their meals... trust me... They also eat their cuds... Cuds, are the chewable stuff that they ate and then they let it out from their own stomachs to be eaten and chewed on again...
But now a days, some farmers give them, especially cows, some animal-source diets that are finely powdered or ground and those are what we call feeds...`
I hope I helped you in your project...
Have a nice day ahead!(^^,)

2007-04-29 18:02:14 · answer #2 · answered by love ko bez ko 1 · 1 0

Plants

2007-04-29 17:26:58 · answer #3 · answered by Lovely unicorn 5 · 0 0

I would say number one on the list (by pounds consumed) is probably grass. Number two is tree leaves. Then comes fruit and vegetables followed by weird stuff like bamboo, twigs and bushes, and assorted weeds.

2007-04-29 16:26:36 · answer #4 · answered by Rich Z 7 · 0 0

herbivores eat herbs! non meat eaters! includes vegetables and fruits, plants...

2007-04-29 16:26:15 · answer #5 · answered by contrabandamanda 3 · 0 0

herbivore
A deer and two fawns feeding on some foliageA herbivore is often defined as any organism that eats only plants[1]. By that definition, many fungi, some bacteria, many animals, about 1% of flowering plants and some protists can be considered herbivores. Many people restrict the term herbivore to animals. Fungi, bacteria and protists that feed on living plants are usually termed plant pathogens. Microbes that feed on dead plants are saprotrophs. Flowering plants that obtain nutrition from other living plants are usually termed parasitic plants.

In zoology, a herbivore is an animal that is adapted to eat primarily plant matter (rather than meat). Although such animals are sometimes referred to as being vegetarian, this term is more properly reserved for humans who choose not to eat meat as opposed to animals that are unable to make such choices.

Herbivores can be further classified into various sub-groups, such as frugivores, which eat mainly fruit; folivores, which specialize in eating leaves; nectarivores, which feed on nectar; among herbivorous insects and other arthropods, the level of feeding specialization can be far more fine-tuned, including seed-eaters ("granivores"), pollen-eaters ("palynivores"), plant fluid-feeders ("mucivores"), and those specialized to feed on wood ("xylophages") or roots ("rhizophages"). In other animals, the degree of specialization is not so advanced, however, and many fruit- and leaf-eating animals also eat other parts of plants, notably roots and seeds. The diets of some herbivorous animals vary with the seasons, especially in the temperate zones, where different plant foods are most available at different times of year.

There is a misperception that if an animal is herbivorous, it represents less danger to humans than a carnivore (or, sometimes, no danger at all). This is not logically sound; few animals, even carnivores, will seek humans as a food source, but any animal will attack a human if necessary to defend itself. For example, in national parks such as the United States' Yellowstone Park, bison represent significantly more danger to humans than wolves, which are likely to avoid people. Of Africa's Big Five game (a term coined by hunters in Africa to refer to the five most dangerous animals to hunt: Rhinoceros, Leopard, Cape Buffalo, Elephant and Lion), three are herbivores.

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Plant defense against herbivory include a range of adaptations evolved by plants to improve their survival and reproduction by reducing the impact of animals that eat them. Plants have evolved an enormous array of mechanical and chemical defenses against herbivores.

These defenses include mechanical protections on the surface of the plant, production of complex polymers that reduce plant digestibility to animals, and the production of toxins that kill or repel herbivores. Defenses can either be constitutive, always present in the plant, or induced, produced or translocated by the plant following damage or stress. The term host plant resistance is also used by plant breeders to refer to these mechanisms.

Plants have also evolved features that enhance the probability of attracting natural enemies to herbivores. Specifically, they emit semiochemicals, odors that attract natural enemies, and provide food and housing to maintain the natural enemies’ presence.

A given plant species often has many types of defensive mechanisms, mechanical or chemical, constitutive or induced, which additively serve to protect the plant, and allow it to escape from herbivores.

2007-04-29 16:31:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anshul V 2 · 0 1

just write down a bunch of plants

2007-04-29 16:29:08 · answer #7 · answered by mick 2 · 0 0

Grass
Plants
Leaves
Berries

Think..not meat

2007-04-29 16:25:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

plants and berries

2007-04-29 16:29:37 · answer #9 · answered by juicy 2 · 0 0

WELL VEGGIES DUH

2007-04-29 16:27:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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