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What does a desert plant eat?

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Desert herbivores primarily feed on grasses and some edible shrubs and trees and their fruits and seeds. In North American deserts, prickly pear cacti also form a part of their diet.

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Javelina, deer and desert tortoises all eat prickly pear cacti and are herbivores.

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Plants don't 'eat'. The produce their own food through the process of photosynthesis.

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