Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
An insectivore is a carnivorous animal or plant that eats insects. [1] An alternative term is entomophage , [ 2 ] which can also refer to the human practice of eating insects . The first vertebrate insectivores were amphibians .
Historically, these animals were grouped with others such as treeshrews, elephant shrews, and colugos, under the broader category Insectivora, comprising all small insect-eating placental mammals.
Nesophontes, sometimes called West Indies shrews, is the sole genus of the extinct, monotypic mammal family Nesophontidae in the order Eulipotyphla.These animals were small insectivores, about 5 to 15 cm long, with a long slender snout and head and a long tail.
European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus). The order Insectivora (from Latin insectum "insect" and vorare "to eat") is a now-abandoned biological grouping within the class of mammals.
The Asian house shrew is a voracious insectivore with little resistance to starvation. It is active during the night, spending the day in a burrow or hiding place in human habitations. They breed throughout the year, with each female averaging two litters per year. The gestation period is one month.
Cnemaspis muria, the Muria rock gecko (Indonesian: Cicak Batu Gunung Muria), is a species of diurnal, rock-dwelling, insectivorous gecko endemic to Indonesia. It is distributed throughout Java . It was first identified by Riyanto et al (2019) on the southern slopes of Gunung Muria , a dormant volcano in central Java.
Like all Molosidae, the southern free-tailed bat is an insectivore. It uses echolocation to locate its insect prey and feeds in or above the open canopy, also taking advantage of gaps in trees (including edges and roads). It is agile enough to forage on the ground, although it may not be able to take off from ground level and will generally ...
The Afroinsectiphilia (African insectivores) is a clade that has been proposed based on the results of recent molecular phylogenetic studies. [1] Many of the taxa within it were once regarded as part of the order Insectivora, but Insectivora is now considered to be polyphyletic and obsolete.