Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Herbivores which consume land plants may eat any or all of the fruit, leaves, sap, nectar, pollen, flowers, bark, cambium, underground storage organs like roots, tubers, and rhizomes, nuts, seeds, shoots, and other parts of plants; they frequently specialize in one or a few of these parts, though many herbivores also have quite diverse diets. [1]
A Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) eating a fruit. A frugivore (/ f r uː dʒ ɪ v ɔːr /) is an animal that thrives mostly on raw fruits or succulent fruit-like produce of plants such as roots, shoots, nuts and seeds. Approximately 20% of mammalian herbivores eat fruit. [1]
Traditionally, the scientific name for the donkey is Equus asinus asinus, on the basis of the principle of priority used for scientific names of animals. However, the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature ruled in 2003 that if the domestic and the wild species are considered subspecies of a common species, the scientific name of the wild species has priority, even when that ...
Articles relating to the domestic donkey (Equus africanus asinus). It is a hoofed mammal in the family Equidae, the same family as the horse. It derives from the African wild ass, Equus africanus. It was domesticated in Africa some 5000–7000 years ago, and has been used mainly as a working animal since that time.
Donkey near the calvary and chapel at Tronoën, Brittany. The population of donkey owners in France is highly diverse and fragmented. [44] The majority of these owners are amateurs who acquire a donkey as a pet or to conserve endangered breeds. [18] Donkeys are then used as ecological lawn mowers in peri-urban areas. [45]
"You don't have to avoid eating peaches in desserts, but if you're adding a high amount of added sugar—or comparing something like a peach pie, peach ice cream and peach candy with a whole peach ...
Bron and the donkeys arrive in a shiny white trailer and will travel within a 45-mile radius of their ranch near Sanger. Anything outside of that is $2.50 a mile.
A miniature donkey and a standard donkey, mother and daughter. North American donkeys constitute approximately 0.1% of the worldwide donkey population. [1] [a] Donkeys were first transported from Europe to the New World in the fifteenth century during the Second Voyage of Christopher Columbus, [2]: 179 and subsequently spread south and west into the lands that would become México. [3]