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megaherbivore species became extinct, with
megaherbivores becoming entirely extinct in Europe,
Australia and the Americas.
Recent megaherbivores include...
- animals.
There are nine
extant species of
megaherbivores,
distributed across Africa and Asia. The term "
megaherbivore" was
coined in 1988 by Owen-Smith to...
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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...
- wood-pasture
hypothesis (also
known as the Vera
hypothesis and the
megaherbivore theory) is a
scientific hypothesis positing that open and semi-open...
- individuals.
Asian elephants are crepuscular. They are
classified as
megaherbivores and
consume up to 150 kg (330 lb) of
plant matter per day.
Around 50...
- the
original (PDF) on 12
September 2008. Owen-Smith, R. N. (1992).
Megaherbivores: The
Influence of Very
Large Body Size on Ecology.
Cambridge University...
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Megafaunal species may be
categorized according to
their dietary type:
megaherbivores (e.g., elephants),
megacarnivores (e.g., lions), and
megaomnivores (e...
- Shrestha, A. K. (2008). "Feeding
ecology of two
endangered sympatric megaherbivores:
Asian elephant Elephas maximus and
greater one-horned
rhinoceros Rhinoceros...
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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...
