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Examples Of Herbivores – Herbivorous Animals List, Pictures & Interesting Facts

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Examples of herbivores include hooved animals such as antelopes, bison, deer, horses, zebras, hippos, rhinos and tapirs. Other types of herbivorous animals include kangaroos, the koala, fruit bats, rabbits, hares, tortoises, the green iguana and giant panda.

On this page is a list of herbivorous animals with pictures and interesting facts. Read on to discover some of the world’s most amazing plant-eaters…

Use the index below to find information on a particular animal, or continue scrolling to browse all of the animals on the list.

Herbivores Examples

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What Do Animals Eat? Carnivores Vs Omnivores Vs Herbivores & More

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Different types of animals eat different types of food: carnivores eat meat, herbivores eat plants, and omnivores eat both plants and meat. Examples of animals with more specialized diets include fructivores (fruit eaters); and folivores (leaf eaters).

On this page you’ll find facts on carnivores, omnivores and herbivores, plus many examples of more specialized animal diets.

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Specialist Animal Diets

Specialist Carnivores

Specialist Herbivores

Other Animal Diets

Nutrients

All organisms, be they animal, plant, fungus, or even single-celled lifeforms such as bacteria, need the nutrients contained in food in order to live.

Nutrients provide an organism with both energy and material from which new cells can be made. They include vital …

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Examples Of Omnivores – Omnivorous Animals List With Pictures & Interesting Facts

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Examples of omnivores include mammals such as baboons, bears, badgers, foxes, raccoons and monkeys; reptiles such as sea turtles and the common snapping turtle; and birds such as crows and other passerines, sapsuckers and the kea.

This page contains examples of omnivores, including these and many more omnivorous species.

Use the index below to find information on a particular animal, or continue scrolling to browse all of the animals on the list.

Omnivores Examples

Omnivores

An omnivore is a species whose diet consists of a mixture of both plant and animal matter. The ability to survive on a wide variety …

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Endangered Animals List With Pictures & Interesting Facts – Updated 2023

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List of endangered animals with pictures and facts, plus links to further information. Test YOUR knowledge of endangered animals with two FREE printable worksheets.

Endangered Animals

Examples of endangered animals include mammals such as the tiger, chimpanzee, Asian elephant and sea otter; birds such as the Egyptian vulture and Galápagos penguin; reptiles such as the Alabama red-bellied cooter and green sea turtle; fish such as the humphead wrasse and whale shark; and amphibians such as the golden poison frog and Majorcan midwife toad.

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All of the animals pictured above are endangered: scroll down to see more.

On this page is a list of endangered animals, with pictures and facts on each species. Note: the list below is NOT definitive and contains just a fraction of the world’s endangered animals.

All of the animals on the list below are currently (as …

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Antarctic Animals List With Pictures & Facts, Species Found In Antarctica

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Antarctic animals list, with pictures and information. Discover the amazing animals that live in one of the world’s harshest environments.

Introduction To Antarctic Animals

Antarctica is a vast frozen continent at the far south of the world. It is covered in a thick layer of ice, and surrounded by the icy waters of the Southern Ocean.

Earth during the Proterozoic Eon may have resembled Antarctica
Antarctica is covered by a thick layer of ice. Most Antarctic animals live on or near the coast; few species can survive the continent’s barren interior.

The Antarctic region includes the continent of Antarctica, together with the surrounding …

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Types Of Animals – Major Animal Groups With Examples & Pictures

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Different types of animals include invertebrates such as sponges, flatworms, roundworms, cnidarians (jellyfish, anemones, etc.), mollusks (squid, octopuses, snails, clams, etc.), crustaceans, arachnids and insects; and vertebrates such as fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds.

On this page is a list of the major animal types, with pictures and facts on each.

Download the FREE accompanying question sheet to test your animal knowledge!

Use the links below to find the information you need (or continue reading for a complete overview of the animal kingdom).

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Types Of Animals

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Animals Around The World – Discover Species From Every Continent

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The world is home to a vast number of animals; there are over 1.5 million recognized living animal species, and likely millions more still to be discovered and named.

Animals first appeared in the sea over 600 million years ago, and subsequently evolved to live in the majority of Earth’s aquatic and terrestrial (land) habitats. Today, animals are found all around the world, from the rainforests of South America to the frozen shores of Antarctica, with every continent being home to a unique collection of species.

On this page is a continent-by-continent guide to animals around the world.

Scroll down to view examples of animals from each continent, or use the links below to visit pages containing information on animals from specific continents (and the Arctic).

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Christmas Animals: Animals Associated With Christmas From All Around The World

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Christmas animals – a list of animals associated with Christmas, with pictures and facts.

Animals play a central part in Christmas celebrations in many parts of the world. On this page we take a look at animals associated with Christmas. We’ll discover what part they play in Yuletide celebrations, and also find out about the animals themselves…

Reindeer

Reindeer

  • Scientific name: Rangifer tarandus
  • Conservation status: Vulnerable

Reindeer are large deer found in cold northerly regions in the northern hemisphere. Although they’re the same species, reindeer found in North America are known as ‘caribou’.

Reindeer (caribou) in Canada make the longest migration of any (non-flying) land animal. In a single year they can travel as far as 3,000 miles / 5,000 km.

Reindeer have become closely associated with Christmas since the early nineteenth century. In the traditional festive legend, Santa …

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