Herbivory

thumb|250px|A deer and two fawns feeding on foliage thumb|250px|A sawfly larva feeding on a leaf thumb|250px|Tracks made by terrestrial gastropods with their radulas, scraping [[green algae from a surface inside a greenhouse]]

thumb|A Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) eating a fruit.|alt=A [[Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) eating a fruit.]]

350px|right|thumb|Worker termite Xylophagy is a term used in ecology to describe the habits of an herbivorous animal whose diet consists primarily (often solely) of wood. The word derives from Greek ξυλοφάγος (xulophagos) "eating wood", from (') "wood" and (') "to eat". Animals feeding only on dead wood are called sapro-xylophagous or saproxylic.

thumb|right|200px|Elephants are an example of a mammalian folivore.

thumb|250px|An Australian painted lady (Vanessa kershawi) feeding on nectar through its long [[proboscis]] In zoology, a nectarivore is an animal which derives its energy and nutrient requirements from a diet consisting mainly or exclusively of the sugar-rich nectar produced by flowering plants.

type of herbivory

range of adaptations evolved by plants which improve their survival and reproduction by reducing the impact of herbivores; plant defensive strategies (defensive traits) to defend against damage caused by herbivores

type of plant-animal interaction in which granivores feed on the seeds of plants as a main or exclusive food source

thumb|right|250px|A honeybee collecting pollen from a flower thumb|A pollen wasp (Jugurtia dispar), a type of wasp that exclusively feeds its [[larvae pollen. This is an example of a palynivore that is only a palynivore for part of its life span, as the adults of the species do not consume pollen]] In zoology, a palynivore /pəˈlɪnəvɔːɹ/, meaning "pollen eater" (from Greek παλύνω palunō, "strew, sprinkle", and Latin, vorare, meaning "to devour") is an herbivorous animal which selectively eats the nutrient-rich pollen produced by angiosperms and gymnosperms. Most true palynivores are insects or

method of feeding in herbivores, eating grasses and other plants

In zoology, a florivore (not to be confused with a folivore) is an animal that primarily eats products of flowers. Florivores are types of herbivores (often referred to as floral herbivores), yet within the feeding behavior of florivory, there is a range of other more specific feeding behaviors, including, but not limited to: Granivory: the consumption of grain and seeds Nectarivory: the consumption of flower nectar Palynivory: the consumption of flower pollen Frugivory: the consumption of fruit

A graminivore is a herbivorous animal that feeds primarily on grass, specifically "true" grasses, plants of the family Poaceae (also known as Graminae). Graminivory is a form of grazing. These herbivorous animals have digestive systems that are adapted to digest large amounts of cellulose, which is abundant in fibrous plant matter and more difficult to break down for many other animals. As such, they have specialized enzymes to aid in digestion and in some cases symbiotic bacteria that live in their digestive track and "assist" with the digestive process through fermentation as the matter trav

strategy employed by many organisms to avoid consumption by producing toxic or repellent metabolites

detachable food body produced on the epidermis of certain plants