Megaherbivores (Greek μέγας megas "large" and Latin herbivora "herbivore") are large herbivores that can exceed 1,000 kg (2,200 lb) in weight. The earliest...
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Wood-pasture hypothesis (redirect from Megaherbivore theory)
wood-pasture hypothesis (also known as the Vera hypothesis and the megaherbivore theory) is a scientific hypothesis positing that open and semi-open...
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semi-evergreen forests across the range. The species is classified as a megaherbivore and consume up to 150 kg (330 lb) of plant matter per day. They consume...
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This is a list of all nine extant species of megaherbivores, with a brief description for each. Elephants, rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses, and giraffes are...
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produces a large hard edible fruit which is accessible only to the megaherbivores in the wild like elephants. A study in the Buxa Tiger Reserve by ecologists...
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Turvey, Samuel T. (July 2021). "Simultaneous extinction of Madagascar's megaherbivores correlates with late Holocene human-caused landscape transformation"...
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driven to extinction or even encountered by human. The hippopotamus is a megaherbivore and is exceeded in size among land animals only by elephants and some...
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Qureshi, Q. & Kalle, R. (2012). "Group size and population structure of megaherbivores (gaur Bos gaurus and Asian elephant Elephas maximus) in a deciduous...
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Diceros bicornis: Information. (9 April 2009) Owen-Smith, R. Norman, Megaherbivores: The Influence of Very Large Body Size on Ecology. Cambridge University...
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vertebrates found in the area, and shared its habitat with other dinosaurian megaherbivores, as well as large theropods and crocodylomorphs. Remains thought to...
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