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insects or birds, but
instances can also be
found in
other animal groups.
Nectarivory is
extremely common in insects. Key
families with
large proportions of...
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other avians because of
their unique adaptions for
hovering flight and
nectarivory. Like
extant hummingbirds,
Eurotrochilus has
these adaptions and are...
- Bats are the only
mammal capable of true flight. Bats use
flight for
capturing prey, breeding,
avoiding predators, and long-distance migration. Bat wing...
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granivory (seed eating),
folivory (leaf eating),
frugivory (fruit eating),
nectarivory (nectar eating),
gummivory (gum eating) and
mycophagy (fungus eating)...
- S; Brereton, R; Astheimer, L (2000). "Morphological
Adaptations to
Nectarivory of the
Alimentary Tract of the
Swift Parrot Lathamus discolor". Emu....
- Datzmann, Thomas; von Helversen, Otto; Mayer,
Frieder (2010). "Evolution of
nectarivory in
phyllostomid bats (Phyllostomidae Gray, 1825, Chiroptera: Mammalia)"...
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energy intake.
Hummingbirds exhibit numerous and
extensive adaptations to
nectarivory,
including long,
probing bills and
tongues which rapidly take up fluids...
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evolved physical modifications for insectivory, frugivory, hematophagy,
nectarivory, and omnivory. The nose-leaf—a
distinctive characteristic of the family—is...
- If the
flowers are not exploited,
sometimes the
nectar is
consumed (
nectarivory)
along with the
pollen (palynivory). At
least 24 native
species from...
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certain creepers and mast
trees like
Polyalthia longifolia. Frugivory,
nectarivory, and
folivory are well understood; in addition,
geophagy behaviour has...
