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Megaherbivores (Gr**** μέγας
megas "large" and
Latin herbivora "herbivore") are
large herbivores that can
exceed 1,000 kg (2,200 lb) in weight. The earliest...
- wood-pasture
hypothesis (also
known as the Vera
hypothesis and the
megaherbivore theory) is a
scientific hypothesis positing that open and semi-open...
- semi-evergreen
forests across the range. The
species is
classified as a
megaherbivore and
consume up to 150 kg (330 lb) of
plant matter per day. They consume...
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Extant megaherbivores are
large megafaunaul herbivores that can
exceed 1,000 kg (2,200 lb) in weight. They
include elephants, rhinos, hippos, and giraffes...
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extinction or even
encountered by humans. The
hippopotamus is a
megaherbivore and is
exceeded in size
among land
animals only by
elephants and some...
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produces a
large hard
edible fruit which is
accessible only to the
megaherbivores in the wild like elephants. A
study in the Buxa
Tiger Reserve by ecologists...
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characteristics are
thought to be
adaptations for
preying on Late
Pleistocene megaherbivores, and in
North America, its prey is
known to have
included western horses...
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rhino is a
driving factor in its ecosystem. The
destruction of the
megaherbivore could have
serious cascading effects on the
ecosystem and harm other...
- Turvey,
Samuel T. (July 2021). "Simultaneous
extinction of Madagascar's
megaherbivores correlates with late
Holocene human-caused
landscape transformation"...
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vertebrates found in the area, and
shared its
habitat with
other dinosaurian megaherbivores, as well as
large theropods and crocodylomorphs.
Remains thought to...
