Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word GRANIVORES

Definitions of GRANIVORES

1. plural of granivore.

Examples of Using GRANIVORES in a Sentence

• They primarily feed on plants, and can be taxonomically divided amongst granivores, that feed mostly on the ground on seeds, and frugivores, that feed mostly on fruits, from branches.
• During the dry season, the diets of the 13 species of Galapagos finches may be assorted into three broad diet categories, first those that consume grain-like foods are considered "granivores", those that ingest arthropods are termed "insectivores" and those that consume vegetation are classified as "folivores".
• Seed predation, often referred to as granivory, is a type of plant-animal interaction in which granivores (seed predators) feed on the seeds of plants as a main or exclusive food source, in many cases leaving the seeds damaged and not viable.
• Brain size is usually smallest in folivores, larger in both granivores and insectivores, and largest in generalists.
• Frugivores include cassowaries, orangutans and grey parrots; insectivores include swallows and pink fairy armadillos; granivores include large ground finches and mice.
• Various terms have arisen to define consumers by what they eat, such as meat-eating carnivores, fish-eating piscivores, insect-eating insectivores, plant-eating herbivores, seed-eating granivores, and fruit-eating frugivores and omnivores are meat eaters and plant eaters.
• The polished pericarp of the nutlet is unusual for the genus and results in the  attraction of granivores, namely sunbirds.

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