ABSTRACT
Herbivores are animals that eat live plants. Herbivory is a special kind of predation where plants are the prey. All parts of a plant-flowers, fruits, seeds, sap, leaves, buds, galls, herbaceous stems, bark, wood, and roots-are eaten by something, but no one herbivore eats them all. There are several specialized herbivore niches-grazers, browsers, grass, grain, or seed feeders (graminivores), grain and seed eaters (granivores), leaf eaters (folivores), fruit and berry eaters (frugivores), nut eaters (nucivores), nectar eaters (nectarivores), pollen eaters (pollenivores), and root eaters. Detritivores eat dead plant material and will be discussed in Chapter 6.
