Sentences with phrase «not herbivores»

Are hamsters not herbivores?

We tend to lump all herbivores into the same category, but, in reality, not all herbivores can eat the same sort of diet — because not all plants are created equally!

Not everyone knows this but hamsters are not herbivores.

Unfortunately, not all herbivores are built the same way.

Yes, dogs are carnivores, not herbivores or omnivores, like humans.

Your rabbit may be an herbivore, but, contrary to popular belief, not all herbivores can thrive on identical plant - based diets.

So find a local farmer you trust and eat your meat, eggs, and dairy with the confidence that humans are omnivores not herbivores and that animal foods are clearly necessary to achieve your best health!

You aren't an herbivore.

There are plenty of strong and lean herbivores I could point to in the animal kingdom as some sort of proof that human should eat plant based diets, but that would be ridiculous, because humans aren't herbivores.

Not exact matches

They're herbivores that don't eat animals or animal products.

Actually Killahippie: Humans were designed to be herbivores not animal eating carnivores.

I do not believe bone of herbivores,, boiled down, with chemicals is nutritious and / or «gut healing»!

It ain't easy being an herbivore on Thanksgiving, lem me tell ya.

They not only transport pollen from flower to flower, but in addition also reduce plant destruction by herbivores.»

Unschooling is also not linear - my six year old can not read yet but she knows the difference between a carnivore, herbivore and omnivore and knows what words like monotrene mean.

Herbivore coprolites are rare in the fossil record because a diet of leaves and other green plant material doesn't leave a lot of hard material to preserve (unlike bones in carnivore dung).

Parasite avoidance is also a likely reason why the carcasses of herbivores are rapidly scavenged by other animals, whereas dead carnivores are not and why the latter end up providing more nutrients for invertebrates and vegetation.

A key finding at Dmanisi, says Tappen, is that all of Dmanisi's herbivores, and most of its carnivores, were from Eurasia, not Africa.

«We were amazed that there wasn't even the slightest indication of a difference between herbivores and carnivores in dinosaurs,» explains the first author.

«Previous studies had disagreed on whether or not insect herbivores in the tropics have more narrow diets than their temperate relatives.»

«Our dietary specialization studies show us that a majority of insect herbivores, around the world, pick one plant in their local ecosystem and feed on just that one type of plant, not every plant that's available, as many people assume.»

Not only does their paper reveal a key insight about some of the world's most important herbivores, it also shows how collaboration opens the door to answering questions beyond the reach of individual scientists.»

Other researchers have shown that some terrestrial plants make compounds that inhibit reproduction in herbivores, but «this type of interaction was not known for marine environments,» says Ianora.

«These results show that the high insect damage diversity at Mexican Hat represents an influx of novel insect herbivores during the early Paleocene and not a refugium for Cretaceous leaf miners,» said Wilf.

However, it may not always be obvious whether human activity or a forest's natural dynamics are at play in, for example, the dieback of a stand or the outbreak of an insect herbivore.

Bocherens comments, «The presence of giant herbivores thus not only contributed to a higher species diversity, it also had an effect on the global climate.»

Very few herbivores bother with moss because it is mostly rough fiber with not much more nutrition than paper.

By offering up a decoy of calorie - rich nectar, the herbivores were distracted enough to not damage the petals or other parts of the flower critical to its chances of being pollinated.

The resulting loss of vegetation will not only impact herbivores like mule deer; their main predator, mountain lions, might take an even larger hit.

BSE emerged as a result of what originally looked like an ingenious use of beef by - products: feeding processed ground cow to ruminants, which are herbivores, not carnivores.

William Murdoch's counterargument, termed the plant self - defense hypothesis by conservation biologist John Terborgh, suggests that food (bottom - up control) has the strongest influence, that the world may be green because not all plants are palatable to herbivores, and that predators are unnecessary for ecosystem regulation.

Previously, the researchers believed that humans at that time had been far more involved in mobile groups of big - game hunters whose main protein intake thus should have come from herbivores such as red deer, aurochs and elk, and consequently the role of fishing was not recognised.

Mammals did not evolve to be large or fast - running herbivores like elephants or deer until the dinosaurs were gone, he says.

Not only will animals have to move, but they'll also need to track changes in the environment and food, such as specific prey for carnivores and the right plants for herbivores.

The data also revealed that elements not needed by plants and animals, such as aluminum, showed no difference, suggesting the herbivores contributed to increased global fertility.

The giant panda gut did not harbor plant - degrading bacteria such as Ruminococcaceae and Bacteroides that are typically enriched in other herbivores, but instead was predominated by Escherichia / Shigella and Streptococcus.

The abundance was due not to more plant - specific herbivores but to many types of spiders and other predators coming to feast on the insects.

The genetically diverse clusters were also crawling with more individuals of predators and omnivores, although not of herbivores — suggesting that genetic resistance to herbivores can not explain the difference.

Since plants can't run away from herbivores, many have evolved defenses such as thick leaves or prickly spines.

Nearly half of all insects are herbivores, but their diets do not consist of only plant material.

Current paradigms generally assume that increased plant nitrogen (N) should enhance herbivore performance by relieving protein limitation, increasing herbivorous insect populations.

In areas with few herbivores acacia plants don't bother to churn out many of the off - putting thorns.

But new genetic analyses of a 14,000 - year - old fossil from an Argentine museum reveal that these ancient herbivores (artist's concept, above) weren't the distant kin of today's Texas roadkill.

Not only do arctic grasslands support higher biodiversity and abundance, there is building evidence that the grazing, compaction and disturbance effects of these larger herbivores enables the deeper freezing of the permafrost during the winter months.

«We've known for a long time that herbivores do eat other insects, but so far people studying herbivory have kind of ignored that because it's a lot easier to put herbivores in a neat bin in which they only eat plants,» says Michigan State University ecologist William Wetzel, who did not participate in the study.

Carnivores don't eat just any meat, they primarily eat herbivores.

Also, I don't think that eagles and sharks are herbivores.

You can't digest fiber; humans completely lack the digestive enzymes necessary, unlike herbivores such as cows and sheep.

Dogs don't have the digestive system omnivores or herbivores do because theirs is designed to digest animal protein like pork, chicken, and fish.

And not to mention we have an intestines that is long like an herbivore.