herbivore
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The new study suggests that Purussaurus could have been influential enough as a predator to affect the size of herbivore populations across the ecosystem.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
Guillermo Deferrari, of Ushuaia's scientific research center, downplayed the landfill theory, explaining that the colilargo is herbivore and lives off seeds and fruit found in forested ecosystems, not in dumps, where the common rat feeds.
From Barron's ● May 12, 2026
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
If instead you want to grow 1,000 pounds of carnivore, you have to feed it 10,000 pounds of herbivore grown on 100,000 pounds of corn.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
It could also be an amynodon, or “swamp rhino,” a member of an extinct family of of large-bodied herbivores that are distantly related to rhinos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
They’re the base of the aquatic food chain, fed on by herbivores of all shapes and sizes, including shrimp and juvenile fish, which in turn feed organisms higher up the food chain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
The team believes giant prey animals may have triggered an "evolutionary arms race" in which predators evolved stronger jaws and skulls to overpower increasingly massive herbivores.
From Science Daily ● May 20, 2026
He told the Reuters news agency that it was "likely that the high temperatures had an impact on the plant fodder that was important to sauropods, which were very large-bodied herbivores".
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
Eurasian peoples happened to inherit many more species of domesticable large wild mammalian herbivores than did peoples of the other continents.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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