Herbivore Animals That Eat Plants

Omnivores like the a bear and b crayfish eat both plant.

Herbivore animals that eat plants. Examples of herbivores include large mammals such as cattle deer sheep and kangaroos as well as smaller creatures such as leaf-eating insects and crustaceans that graze upon aquatic algae. Herbivorous animals have wide blunt teeth that help them to pull the plants from the ground. Examples of herbivores include vertebrates like deer koalas and some bird species as well as invertebrates such as crickets and caterpillars.

Goats actually eat anything they can find right from paper to cardboard boxes. In practice many vegetarians eat eggs and occasionally eat other animal protein. Some animals eat both plants and meat.

However people who choose not to eat meat called vegetarian. An herbivore is an animal that mainly eats plants. Nectivores eat mostly nectar.

Surgeonfish and parrotfish are two familiar MAR examples often seen browsing and scraping on reef algae. Thursday September 3 2015. An animals diet determines where it falls on the food chain a sequence of organisms that provide energy and nutrients for other organisms.

Apart from the moose the elk is one of the largest herbivorous mammals in North America. They are domesticated by humans for their milk hair skin meat and also kept as pets. Even some fish are herbivorous her-BIV-or-us.

The exact diet is different depending on the species and location of the gorilla but most feed largely and plant leaves stems and roots. Xylophages eat mostly wood. For example pacus cousins of meat-eating piranhas nosh.