| Moreover, palm fruits have been proposed to be keystone resources for Neotropical vertebrate frugivores. |
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| Just as carnivores eat meat and herbivores eat plant matter, frugivores subsist primarily on fruit. |
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| Grazers, for example, require a comparatively greater grinding area of cheek teeth than browsers and frugivores. |
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| Consequently, nectivores, granivores, and frugivores may be less likely to experience food shortage in small fragments. |
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| In tropical rainforests, the majority of woody plant species disperse seeds via vertebrate frugivores. |
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| These highly specialized birds feed almost exclusively on fruits, supplying fruit even to their nestlings, and hence are called frugivores. |
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| During the late Cretaceous and early Paleocene periods plant-eating mammals were frugivores, presumably because fruit can be more easily processed than foliage. |
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| Are frugivores relatively rare and insectivores quite common? |
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| Ethanol vapor emanating from palatable fruit may act as an odor cue, guiding bats and other frugivores to the fruit, and aiding them to assess its quality. |
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| Not only do microbial frugivores consume fruits and fail to disperse seeds, but they often render fruits unattractive to vertebrate frugivores that do disperse seeds. |
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| Furthermore, fruits in the forest canopy support a disproportionately high amount of bird biomass, because in general frugivores tend to be very large. |
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| The mutualisms between nectarivores and flowers, and between frugivores and fruits, are not just extraneous additions to the organization of biological communities. |
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| Chimpanzees are primarily frugivores, but they could and would consume and digest animal flesh, given the opportunity. |
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| Interactions among frugivores and fleshy fruit trees in a Philippine submontane rainforest. |
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| The local extinction of a seemingly obscure plant, however, could easily lead to the local extinction of frugivores and nectarivores if these animals rely on that plant during times of scarcity of alternative plants. |
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| Frugivores preferred tree species that beat fruit and granivores preferred tree species that bear small seeds or fruit. |
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