A frugivore /fruːdʒɪvɔːr/ is an animal that thrives mostly on raw fruits or succulent fruit-like produce of plants such as roots, shoots, nuts and seeds.
What is it called when an animal eats fruit?
frugivore, any animal that subsists totally or primarily on fruit. Although the diets of many animals include fruits, many species practice frugivory exclusively.
What are seed eating animals called?
Answer: A frugivore is any type of herbivore or omnivore where fruit is a preferred food type. Such an animal thrives mostly on raw fruits, succulent fruit-like vegetables, roots, shoots, nuts and seeds.
What is a Fructivor?
fru·gi·vore n. An animal, such as a chimpanzee or fruit bat, that feeds primarily on fruit. [From frugivorous.]
What type of animals eat berries?
Bluebirds, cardinals, catbirds, robins, mockingbirds, mourning doves and wild turkeys all nibble blueberries. Squirrels, mice, opossums and chipmunks also eat blueberries, but keeping the three smallest of these rodents out of your blueberries without resorting to trapping or toxic baits can be difficult.
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