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referred to as granivory, is a type of plant-animal
interaction in
which granivores (seed predators) feed on the
seeds of
plants as a main or
exclusive food...
- grey parrots;
insectivores include swallows and pink
fairy armadillos;
granivores include large ground finches and mice. All of
these animals are omnivores...
-
herbivores (subcategorised into folivores, graminivores, frugivores,
granivores, nectarivores, algivores, etc.), omnivores, fungivores, scavengers/detritivores...
-
plant eating, and
piracy or kleptoparasitism. Many gr****land
birds are
granivores.
Birds of prey
specialise in
hunting mammals or
other birds,
while vultures...
- piscivores, insect-eating insectivores, plant-eating herbivores, seed-eating
granivores, and fruit-eating
frugivores and
omnivores are meat
eaters and
plant eaters...
-
morphological adaptations used to
distinguish between the two
groups include granivores tending to
having thick walls in
their gizzards, intestines, and esophagi...
- may use
their foot
sometimes to hold
large seeds in place.
Parrots are
granivores rather than seed dis****rs, and in many
cases where they are seen consuming...
- colobuses, many leaf
beetles Nectarivores Nectar Honey possums,
hummingbirds Granivores Seeds Hawaiian honeycreepers, bean
weevils Graminivores Gr****
Horses Palynivores...
-
squirrel Tamiasciurus fremonti.
American red
squirrels are
primarily granivores, but
incorporate other food
items into
their diets opportunistically....
- species. Only
eight species of
lemur are
known to be seed
predators (
granivores), but this may be under-reported
since most
observations only
report fruit...
