Assertion: cassowary | /r/CapableOf | eat fruit
Facets:
value: mostly
type: DEGREE
value: commonly
type: DEGREE
value: almost
type: DEGREE
value: along with a pile of dung
type: OTHER
value: in the wild
type: LOCATION
value: with no ill effects
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Cassowaries eat mainly fruit, but are also known to feed on insects, plants, invertebrates and small vertebrates.
text: Cassowaries feed mainly on fruit, although all species are truly omnivorous and will take a range of other plant food, including shoots and grass seeds, in addition to fungi, invertebrates, and small vertebrates.
text: They will consume fruits, green vegetation, grass seeds, snails, rats, flowers, frogs, birds, mice, fungi, fish, carrion, small invertebrates, shoots, fungi, and small vertebrates.
text: The cassowary has an important role as a rainforest gardener, swallowing fruit and then excreting the seeds about a kilometre away, along with a pile of dung.
text: The plums' sap is poisonous to most animals, including humans, but not to cassowaries, which consume the fruit with no ill effects, because of their short and fast digestive system, which passes the fruit relatively intact.
text: They swallow many fruits whole and the seeds pass through the bird’s digestive system nearly intact.
text: Cassowaries are known as a keystone species of the rainforest because when they eat fruit, the seeds get distributed along the forest cover in their excrement.
text: Cassowaries eat only fruit, but each of their feet conceal a "dagger-like" claw on the inner toe than can grow up to four inches long.
text: Cassowaries are frugivores and eat fruit that has fallen to the ground.
text: In the wild, these cassowaries eat primarily fruit that has fallen from trees or that grows on low-lying branches.
text: Cassowaries eat mostly fruit, but they’ll take just about any food that presents itself… plants, frogs, insects and the like.
text: The cassowary is a frugivorous bird (it mostly eats fruit).
text: Cassowaries are herbivores and eat mostly fruit.
text: The cassowary eats fruit, and many plant species require passage through its digestive system to sprout.
text: Cassowaries commonly eat fruits that have
text: Cassowaries feed mainly on fruit, although all species are truly omnivorous and will take a range of other plant food including shoots, grass seeds, and fungi in addition to invertebrates and small vertebrates.
text: Cassowaries feed mainly on fruit, although all species are truly omnivorous and will take a range of other plant food including shoots, grass seeds, and fungi in addition to invertebrates and small vertebrates.
text: Cassowaries feed mainly on fruit, although all species are truly omnivorous and will take a range of other plant food including shoots, grass seeds, and fungi in addition to invertebrates and small vertebrates.
text: Cassowaries feed mainly on fruit, although all species are truly omnivorous and will take a range of other plant food, including shoots and grass seeds, in addition to fungi, invertebrates, and small vertebrates.
text: Cassowaries make excellent rainforest gardeners and feed on almost anything, including fruit, fungi, snails, rats, birds and lizards.
text: Cassowaries are predominantly frugivorous, feeding on fruits that have fallen to the forest floor, but will predate on small vertebrates where available.
text: Cassowaries feed mainly on fruits, though all species are truly omnivorous and will take a range of other plant food including shoots, grass seeds and fungi in addition to invertebrates (= animals without internal skeleton, such as insects, larvae, earthworms, millipedes, snails, spiders) and small vertebrates.
text: What also makes the cassowary so special is the fact that it has an unusual digestive system that allows it to consume fruits that would be toxic to other species.