Herbivore Animals That Eat Plants

Xylophages eat mostly wood.

Herbivore animals that eat plants. These animals have evolved digestive systems capable of digesting large amounts of plant material. Humans are not herbivores. The great diversity of invertebrate and vertebrate herbivores.

However people who choose not to eat meat called vegetarian. Herbivores come in all shapes and sizes in the animal kingdom. There are some animals which eat both plants as well as animals.

Herbivores have teeth that are adapted to grind vegetable tissue. 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. Omnivores like the a bear and b crayfish eat both plant.

Usually such animals cannot digest meat. Even some fish are herbivorous her-BIV-or-us. Herbivorous animals have wide blunt teeth that help them to pull the plants from the ground.

Herbivores vary in size from small like bugs to large like giraffes. Humans bears shown in Figure 3a and chickens are example of vertebrate omnivores. Many animals that eat fruit and leaves sometimes eat other parts of plants for example roots and seeds.

Detritivores eat mostly dead plant material. For example pacus cousins of meat-eating piranhas nosh. An herbivore is an animal that eats plants as its primary source of sustenance.