An herbivore is an animal or insect that only eats vegetation, such as grasses, fruits, leaves, vegetables, roots and bulbs. Herbivores only eat things that need photosynthesis to live. This ...

If a groundhog is disrupting your yard or digging up your garden, there's good news. You can use your apple scraps to keep them away. Here's how to do it.

Reintroducing large herbivores into fire-prone areas can help combat the global rise in megafires ...

What Hippopotamuses Eat The hippopotamus consumes a mostly herbivorous diet in the wild. Grasses, supplemented with nutrient-rich fruits, seem to make up the great majority of their food intake ...

Hippos are primarily herbivores, but they have been observed to eat other animal carcasses. They are big enough to do so, but do hippos eat humans?

From mastodons to ancient rhinos and giant deer, large herbivores have been shaping Earth's landscapes for millions of years. A new study, published in Nature Communications, shows how these ...

But those same herbivores eat fruit from large trees, and leave the seeds behind in rich mounds of dung, allowing new seedlings to grow in the openings.

Elephants, buffaloes and other heavy herbivores are effective against invasive plants. This is the conclusion of a new study that used Indian data, including data from the world's largest survey ...

Data from the CDC found that tomatoes are actually the healthiest fruits. A dietitian explain why—and reveals how many tomatoes you should have per day.

A recent study reveals how tea plants defend themselves against herbivores by activating specific genes.

Herbivore stress may reinforce selective seed development, favoring outcrossed over selfed seeds if insect damage limits overall seed production and fitness. Many plants have mechanisms such as fruit ...

Both native and introduced plant-eating mammals similarly affect plant diversity and abundance — contrary to common belief.