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Hyraxes (from Ancient Greek ὕραξ hýrax 'shrew-mouse'), also called dassies, [1] [2] are small, stout, thickset, herbivorous mammals in the family Procaviidae within the order Hyracoidea. Hyraxes are well-furred, rotund animals with short tails. [3]
Herbivory is of extreme ecological importance and prevalence among insects.Perhaps one third (or 500,000) of all described species are herbivores. [4] Herbivorous insects are by far the most important animal pollinators, and constitute significant prey items for predatory animals, as well as acting as major parasites and predators of plants; parasitic species often induce the formation of galls.
Various carnivorans, with feliforms to the left, and caniforms to the right. Carnivora is an order of placental mammals that have specialized in primarily eating flesh. Members of this order are called carnivorans, or colloquially carnivores, though the term more properly refers to any meat-eating organisms, and some carnivoran species are omnivores or herbivores.
Pages in category "Herbivorous mammals" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. African buffalo;
It turns out the source was a creature new to science, a species of tree hyrax — small, herbivorous mammals — called Dendrohyrax interfluvialis. It's not easy to confirm a new species ...
Sirenia is an order of fully aquatic, herbivorous mammals that inhabit rivers, estuaries, coastal marine waters, swamps, and marine wetlands. All four species are endangered. They evolved about 50 million years ago, and their closest living relatives are elephants. The manatees are the only extant afrotherians in the Americas.
This is a list of North American mammals. It includes all mammals currently found in the United States , St. Pierre and Miquelon , Canada , Greenland , Bermuda , Mexico , Central America , and the Caribbean region, whether resident or as migrants .
Herbivore is the anglicized form of a modern Latin coinage, herbivora, cited in Charles Lyell's 1830 Principles of Geology. [3] Richard Owen employed the anglicized term in an 1854 work on fossil teeth and skeletons. [3] Herbivora is derived from Latin herba 'small plant, herb' [4] and vora, from vorare 'to eat, devour'. [5]