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Herbivores
This category covers questions about herbivores, organisms that obtain energy from a diet of mainly, or exclusively, autotrophs (producers). Generally, herbivores are known as primary consumers. Herbivores often survive more easily than carnivores (secondary consumers).
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Rhinoceros beetle a herbivore or carnivore?
Rhinoceros beetles are herbivores, meaning they primarily feed on plant material such as fruits, sap, and wood. They do not consume other animals.
Is a giant coconut crab a herbivore or a carnivore?
Giant coconut crabs are omnivores, meaning they eat both plant and animal matter. They primarily feed on fruits, nuts, and vegetation but will also scavenge on carcasses or hunt small animals if the opportunity arises.
Yes, slugs are herbivores. They typically feed on plant material like leaves, fruits, and vegetables by scraping the surface with their radula, a specialized feeding structure.
Why large ears might be expected to evolve in a terrestrial herbivore?
Large ears in a terrestrial herbivore can help with thermoregulation by dissipating heat more efficiently. It can also enhance hearing to detect predators and communicate within the herd. Additionally, big ears can provide a larger surface area for blood vessels to cool down blood circulating through the body.
Are mid-western chipmunks herbivores?
Well strictly speaking, no. All kinds of chipmunks are omnivores (meaning that they eat plants and animals.) The typical diet for a chipmunk is fruit, seeds, berries, fungi, bark and insects.
Yes, chipmunks are herbivores. They primarily eat nuts, seeds, berries, fruits, and sometimes insects. They have a diet that consists mainly of plant-based foods.
Is a water shrew a herbivore carnivore or an omnivore?
A water shrew is a carnivore, meaning it primarily feeds on meat. It preys on insects, small fish, tadpoles, and other aquatic animals found in its habitat.
Is the cased caddis fly larva carnivore herbivore omnivore?
The cased caddis fly larva is a detritivore, meaning it primarily feeds on decaying organic matter found in its environment. While it might accidentally consume some small organisms while feeding, its main diet consists of plant material, algae, and other detritus.
Is a tiger shark a carnivore herbivore or an omivore?
Tiger sharks are carnivores, with a diet consisting of a vast array of prey, including fish, seals, birds, crustaceans, squid, turtles, and dolphins.
What are some adaptations for herbivores in a deciduous forest?
Herbivores in deciduous forests have adaptations such as specialized teeth for grinding plant material, digestive systems that can break down tough plant fibers, camouflage to hide from predators, and keen senses to detect predators and locate food sources. Some herbivores also have the ability to detoxify certain plant toxins that they consume.
Is a jack rabbit a herbivore carnivore or omnivore?
I just found out today that Jackrabbit's are, in fact, herbivores.
Is the six banded longhorn beetle a herbivore?
Yes, the six banded longhorn beetle is a herbivore. It feeds on the sap and tissue of plants, particularly woody plants.
Is a grass carp a herbivore carnivore or omnivore?
Carp are omnivores. They will eat decaying plant and animal matter from the floor of the river, pond, or other body of water that they inhabit.
What omnivore eats both berries and salmon in the fall?
Grizzly and Black Bears eat berries during the summer and salmon in the fall. But that is not their total diet, they eat green vegetation, flowers, insects (ants, beetles, bees, moths, etc.), pine seeds, animals (ground squirrels, newborn elk, moose calves), carrion and garbage.
Is a tree kangaroo a carnivore omnivore or herbivore?
It depends on the species. The animals most commonly known as kangaroos are herbivores, primarily eating grass and other vegetation. Besides grass, they eat young shoots and tender leaves of native shrubs. They enjoy grains as well, but being herbivorous, they do not eat any other animals. Kangaroos are grazing animals, and they will regurgitate their food to chew like cattle chew their cud. These kangaroos include the larger red and grey kangaroos, as well as wallaroos, wallabies, quokkas, potoroos and bettongs/rat-kangaroos. Bettongs also eat fungi and tubers.
Tree kangaroos eat leaves, and sometimes fruit. Some varieties of tree kangaroo are omnivores, eating insects and other invertebrates. The Goodfellow's tree kangaroo has been known to eat eggs and small birds as well.
Smaller varieties of kangaroos such as the musky-rat kangaroo are omnivores, eating fruits, seeds, fungi insect larvae and small invertebrates such as grasshoppers and beetles.
How do you describe a omnivores teeth?
Herbivores, such as sheep, eat grass and vegetation. They're teeth are specially adapted for this.
In the lower jaw, herbivores have incisors which are used to cut through grass by biting against a hard pad which is on the upper jaw.
The molars and premolars in the mouth of a herbivore have a flat surface. This is for grinding vegetation and grass. Jaws help with the grinding my moving sideways.
Anchiceratops was a herbivorous dinosaur that primarily fed on plants like ferns, cycads, and low-lying vegetation. Its beak-like mouth and teeth structure were adapted for cropping and grinding plant material.
Is a hydra a carnivore or a herbivore or omnivore?
The hydra in most myths was a carnivore, so I believe, it is most likely it is one, but then again it may be an omnivore because people only reported when humans got eaten but not if they ate plants. There is also a belief that they only attacked people because they were frightened and had to use self defense.
I'm guessing that the hydra is a either a carnivore or omnivore at best.
Are buzzards a herbivore or a carnivore?
Buzzards are carnivores, meaning they primarily eat meat. They are opportunistic feeders and typically consume small mammals, birds, and carrion.
Game birds and songbirds both eat bluegrass. These birds include the grand prairie chicken and the wild turkeys. These birds prefer the seeds of the bluegrass over seeds from other grasses.
Other animals that eat bluegrass are cattle, sheep, goats, grasshoppers, horses, donkeys, mules, deer (occaisonally), elk (if available), bison, and other herbivorous grazers.
What is a giant hairy scorpion a carnivore or herbivore?
A giant hairy scorpion is a carnivore. Scorpions primarily feed on insects, spiders, and other small animals. They are equipped with pincers and a venomous stinger to catch and subdue their prey.
Is the spinosaurus capable of taking down a large herbivore?
Spinosaurus was mainly piscivorous, as you probably know, but fish were certainly not the only food source for Spinosaurus. It was probably capable of taking down small-medium sized prey like the Iguanodont, Ouranosaurus. However, larger animals like Paralititan or Aegyptosaurus, were probably too large for Spinosaurus too take down. Even Carcharodontosaurus, which was specifically adapted for taking down large sauropods, would need help from several other members of the same species. When hunting other dinosaurs, Spinosaurus may have grappled the prey with it's huge arms then bit into the prey and thrashed it's head back and forth, using it's long neck.
Both marine and freshwater mussels are filter feeders; they feed on plankton and other microscopic sea creatures which are free-floating in seawater. So they are omnivores, they eat both plants and animals
