### animal:

Herbivore
* Many herbivores also are ruminants
  - are needed to support a few carnivores
  - belong to a group called ruminants
* Many herbivores have cheek pouches in which they can store food for a while
  - large, dull, flat teeth
  - spend a large part of their life eating
* Most herbivores are one or the other.
* Most herbivores can have impact
  - reproduction
  - chew food
* Most herbivores compete for food
  - resources
* Most herbivores consume biomass
  - grass
  - live plant tissue
  - many succulent plants
  - sea grass
* Most herbivores depend on availability
* Most herbivores eat aquatic plants
  - blueberries
* Most herbivores eat decay plant materials
  - vegetation
  - fibrous materials
  - flowers
  - fruit
  - green plants
  - herbages
  - leafy plants
  - leaves
  - matter
  - nuts
  - organisms
  - photosynthetic organisms
  - roots
  - seeds
  - shrubs
  - trees
  - vegetable matter
  - vegetables
  - escape predation
* Most herbivores feed on acacias
  - fibrous food
  - potato
  - upon leaves
  - find food
* Most herbivores get leaves
  - lower leaves
  - graze grassland
* Most herbivores has-part glands
  - guts
  - stomachs
* Most herbivores have ability
  - diets
  - effects
  - front teeth
  - growth
  - molars
  - mouthparts
  - organs
  - positive effects
  - predators
  - ingest toxins
  - kill plants
* Most herbivores live in areas
  - ecosystems
  - forests
  - habitats
  - same areas
  - make up prey
  - occupy areas
  - populate areas
* Most herbivores possess bodies
  - bones
  - enemies
  - sides
  - skulls
* Most herbivores prefer eat grass
  - gardens
  - rely on plants
* Most herbivores require food
  - grain
  - seek meals
  - select food
* Most herbivores serve as food
  - share landscapes
  - use energy
* Most herbivores walk on feet
  - legs
* Some herbivores acquire energy
  - adapt to diets
* Some herbivores affect abundances
  - aquatic plant abundances
  - decomposition
  - nutrient availability
* Some herbivores are located in mangroves
  - more successful at feeding on damaged hosts
  - very aggressive
  - attract carnivores
  - avoid consumption
* Some herbivores become hosts
  - specialists
  - benefit from absence
* Some herbivores browse on trees
  - raspberry, but in general, it offers relatively poor forage
  - carry capacity
* Some herbivores cause damage
  - deterioration
* Some herbivores consume moss
  - nutrients
  - only dead plant material
  - control plants
  - depend on producers
* Some herbivores eat algae
  - any plant matter they can find
  - cacti
  - eucalyptuses
  - kelp
  - meat
  - pear cacti
  - plant flowers
* Some herbivores eat prickly cacti
  - seaweed
* Some herbivores feed on algas
  - marine algas
  - nectar
* Some herbivores find in rainforests
  - tropical rainforests
  - follow fire
  - graze in grassland
* Some herbivores graze on algas
  - plants and others browse
  - woodlands
  - has-part incisors
* Some herbivores have bacteria
  - breakdowns
  - competitive outcomes
  - develop incisors
  - hands
  - harvesters
  - similar outcomes
  - the ability to break down the chemicals in their body without being harmed
  - upper hands
  - invade ground
* Some herbivores kill mature trees
* Some herbivores live in communities
  - regions
  - shore communities
  - make gases
* Some herbivores possess enzymes
  - horns
* Some herbivores prefer forests
  - nests
  - provide food
  - reach height
  - release energy
* Some herbivores sense infection
  - parasitic infection
* Some herbivores use chemicals
  - complex chemicals
* also have a noticeably longer intestine than carnivores.
* are a type of heterotroughs that obtain energy by eating plants
  - able to consume diets relatively high in fiber and low in protein
  - an important component of the prairie ecosystem
  - animals that eat autotrophs in order attain energy in the form of nutrients
* are animals that eat only plant material, such as the caterpillar
  - plants and they are placed next in the food chain
  - plants, while carnivores are animals that eat other animals
  - solely on plants
  - exist mainly on a diet of plants or algae
  - feed only on plants
* are animals which eat only vegetation such as leaves, fruit and bark
  - only eat plant material
  - whose primary food source is plant-based
  - animals, such as deer, who eat plants
* are at the second level in the food chain
  - of the food chain and mainly eat plants
  - called primary consumers because the feed directly on producers
  - classified based on the part of the plant consumed
  - common, but big, fierce animals are rare
  - considered primary consumers and are the first consumers on the food chain
  - consumed by carnivores or by omnivores
* are consumers that eat plants for their energy and nutrients
  - which eat the producers
  - designed to eat and digest plants
  - direct plant feeders
  - eaten by the secondary consumers, or carnivores
  - grazers, and in the ocean that means they eat phytoplankton
  - mammals that eat plants
  - on the opposite end of the dietary food chain from carnivores
  - one step away from the ultimate source of energy, the sun
* are organisms that are adapted to eat plants
  - anatomically and physiologically adapted to eat plant-based foods
* are plant eaters and are primary consumers
  - have flat teeth
  - surrounded by their food and make up the primary consumers in the food web
* are the main seed dispersers
  - organisms that feed directly on producers
  - primary consumers and they include anything that eats grass or plants
* are the second trophic level and graze on plants
  - wildlife species that eat vegetation
* attack plants.
* belong to the second trophic level
  - tothe second trophic level, and the predatorsbelong to the third level
* can also be keystone species
  - avoid plant defenses by eating plants selectively in space and time
  - be very large or very small
  - eat the whole plant
  - major impact
  - keep dominant species of plants in check so that other species can grow
  - live only where plant food is available
  - often have several stomach chambers and a much longer digestive tract
  - simply walk, swim, or fly up to the plants they feed on
  - sometimes benefit the plants they consume
  - wreak great damage
* can, however, be picky eaters, depending on how palatable salt-marsh plants are.
* come in many shapes and sizes.
* consume algae or plant matter such as seeds, leaves, and fruits
  - only plants and get their organic compounds from the plants
  - plant biomass
  - plants, and carnivores consume herbivores
* consume the carbohydrates produced by plants using photosynthesis
  - constructed plant organic molecules for nutrition to run their metabolism
* convert plant biomass into animal biomass.
* damage habitats
  - plants for their survival
  - autotrophic organisms, plants, algae and autotrophic bacteria
* eat only plants, carnivores eat only meat, and omnivores eat both plants and meat
  - while carnivores eat only other animals
* eat plant material, which is much more difficult to digest than animal tissue
* eat plants and release the stored energy
  - only while omnivores eat both plants and meat
* eat plants, algae, and other producers
  - carnivores eat meat and omnivores eat both
  - particularly roots
  - such as seagrass, and other photosynthetic organisms, such as algae
  - which form the foundation of the food chain but are the toughest to digest
* eat producers and are called first order consumers
  - such as plants
  - the leaves and fruits of the forest
* eat the plants and are at the second trophic level
  - convert plant proteins into animal proteins and nucleic acids
  - plants, and carnivores then eat the herbivores
* employ numerous types of feeding strategies.
  - the autotrophs and transform the energy of the plant into their usable form
* feed upon leaves
  - the trophic level, consuming plants
* function in food chains and food webs as primary consumers.
* graze for long periods throughout a day to gain as much energy as possible
  - canine teeth
  - dentition and digestion specially adapted deal with tough plant materials
  - it easier than carnivores, when it comes to finding food
* have large, flat teeth that grind up plant materials
  - to pulverize the cellulose plant wall
  - longer small intestines than carnivores
  - more peripheral vision - seeing with only one eye a good part of the time
  - sweat pores for heat control
  - teeth that are adapted to grind fibrous plant tissue
  - weak defenses and are often prey
* include elk.
* includes brains
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - ears
  - faces
  - heads
  - plasma membranes
  - sections
  - vacuoles
* ingest materials
* inhibit climate-driven shrub expansion on the tundra.
* is an animal
* just eat less food during moonlit nights to avoid predators.
* mainly eat the producers.
* need drink water
* only consume plant material which is very difficult to digest.
* only eat plants and other things that grow on trees or the ground
  - to get energy and nutrients
* prefer diseased plants
* procure their nutrition and energy from the plants.
* refer to animals that consume only plant products.
  - vegetation in their environment
* roam continents
  - earth
* search for dried grass under the snow.
* sometimes die after getting their necks caught in branches.
* to digest food.
* typically have adaptations towards a specialization of eating and digesting plant matter.