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Herbivores: Understanding Plant-Eating Animals & Their Diversity

 
Herbivore

Herbivore

Herbivorous Animal, an animal that eats only plant food. Plant-eating mammals include such widely different species as the rabbit and the gorilla. The ruminants, or cud-chewing mammals, make up a large group of herbivorous animals. .) Zoologists formerly grouped certain plant-eating mammals (mostly ungulates, or hoofed animals) into a separate order called Herbivora.