herbivore
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Students must do a training stint in each of four main categories — carnivore, herbivore, bird and primate — so they may wind up working with animals they find unpleasant.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2025
The medium-sized herbivore once roamed the floodplains of what is now the island's south-west coast.
From BBC • Aug. 22, 2025
The newest — described on Thursday by a team of researchers in the journal PeerJ — is Lokiceratops rangiformis, a five-ton herbivore with spectacular, curving brow horns and huge, bladed spikes on its meter-long frill.
From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2024
Deprived of a primary herbivore, the reefs succumbed to algal overgrowth and never fully recovered.
From Science Magazine • May 28, 2024
In each case the birds dine on the insects that would otherwise bother the herbivore.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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