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Are giant pandas grazers or browsers?
They are browsers. They pick individual food items (bamboo shoots) from the 'parent' plant. Grazers eat grass directly from the ground.
What does a Grey Kangaroo eat?
All species of kangaroos are grazers (grass, rough herbage) and browsers (tree/shrub leaves and bark).
Do okapi graze on grass?
Okapis, being distinctly related to the giraffe, are actually browsers, not grazers. Occasionally they may graze, but most often they eat leaves and stems off of trees like their much taller kin.
What are the food habits of rhino?
The African White Rhino eats grass (i.e they are grazers) The African Black Rhino eats leaves (i.e they are browsers)
Are ungulates exclusively grazers?
There are documented instances of true ungulates (in this example deer) killing birds for the calcium in their bones. Generally these animals are grazers or browsers. This is an odd taxonomic group that includes aardvarks, hyraxes and elephants as well as manatees...so there are some obvious omnivores in this group.
How many square yards of grass can 50 goats clear in one summer?
Not much. Goats are browsers, not grazers, and prefer brush, hay, etc. Sheep are the clearers.
Does the whitetail deer need a certain area for grazing?
Deer are browsers, not grazers like cattle. Deer like any good pasture containing vegetation that they enjoy.
What is the difference between a wooly mammoth and a mastadon?
The mastadon was a smaller form of a wolly mammoth.It is widely belived that mastdons were browsers of shubby vegitations while mammoths where grazers of herbacious grasses.
Does an okapi graze on grass?
Okapi are browsers, not grazers, so no, they do not graze on grass.Okapi are herbivores, or plant eaters. Grass is one of the foods they eat. They also eat a variety of ferns, buds, etc. Many of the plants they eat are poisonous to humans.
How are animals categorized according to the food they eat?
Herbivores (plant eaters)Browsers (leaf eaters)Grazers (grass eatersOmnivores (eats all groups)CarnivoresInsectivores (insect eaters)Piscivores (fish eaters)
Are grazers carnivores?
No, grazers are plant eaters, herbivores.
Which action of the rabbits would harm the buffalo that live in the grassland?
Rabbits are browsers that eat vegetative matter to completeness. Buffalo are grazers that crop grass to a level well above the roots. If enough rabbit browsers were on the grazing area of the buffalo then the grass would be eaten to the root and the buffalo would be short of its sustenance.
