A frugivore (/ ˈfruːdʒɪvɔːr / FROO-jiv-or) is an animal that thrives mostly on raw fruits or succulent fruit-like produce of plants such as roots, shoots, nuts and seeds. Approximately 20% of mammalian herbivores eat fruit. [1] . Frugivores are highly dependent on the abundance and nutritional composition of fruits.

2017年7月1日 · A mechanistic understanding of frugivory and seed dispersal, and their consequences for plants, would require us to understand fruit choices made by frugivores (Corlett, 2011b), predict seed fates in the mouth and gut, track movements of frugivores (Kays et al., 2015), and assess the

Frugivore, any animal that subsists totally or primarily on fruit. Although the diets of many animals include fruits, many species practice frugivory exclusively. Such animals include several species of bats, such as the Jamaican fruit bat (Artibeus jamaicensis) and a number of flying foxes

2020年6月29日 · We found that small frugivores—particularly small rodents and birds—were responsible for 72% of the events of frugivory. Large frugivores, such as tapirs and peccaries, were responsible for less...

2011年11月1日 · In this paper we briefly review the evolutionary history of the mutualistic interaction between angiosperms that produce fleshy fruits and their major consumers: frugivorous birds and mammals. Fleshy fruits eaten by these vertebrates are widely distributed throughout angiosperm phylogeny.

2025年3月3日 · NeoFrugivory represents a comprehensive compilation of 10,175 unique frugivory interactions across the Neotropical region, the most diverse in terms of vertebrate frugivores, and consolidates information from 419 studies spanning from 1967 to 2023. It includes 2375 plant species and 758 terrestrial vertebrate species.

2023年9月20日 · Frugivores are a classification of animals that have adapted to eat primarily fruit as their main food source. The term “frugivore” originates from Latin, where “frux” means fruit and “vorare” means to devour or consume. So, frugivores are essentially fruit eaters. Frugivory is a form of herbivory since it involves eating plant material.

2010年11月17日 · This meeting provided an opportunity to assess conceptual and methodological progress, to present ever more sophisticated insights into frugivory in animals and dispersal patterns in plants, and to report the advances made in examining the mechanisms and consequences of seed dispersal for plants and frugivores.

2023年6月12日 · To help fill this need, we compiled Frugivoria, a trait database containing ecological, life-history, morphological and geographical traits for mammals and birds exhibiting frugivory. Frugivoria encompasses species in contiguous moist montane forests and adjacent moist lowland forests of Central and South America—the latter specifically ...

2024年6月2日 · Frugivores are animals that thrive entirely or predominantly on fruits or fruit-like vegetables. Herbivores or omnivores can also have fruit as the primary item in their diet. According to numerous studies, roughly one-quarter of …