The word 'carp' could never have multiplied itself into the absurdities of endo-carps and epi-carps, but in the mouths of men who scarcely ever read it in its original letters, and therefore never recognized it as meaning precisely the same thing as 'fructus,' which word, being a little more familiar with, they would have scarcely abused to the same extent; they would not have called a walnut shell an intra-fruct--or a grape skin an extra-fruct; but again, because, though they are accustomed to the English 'fructify,' 'frugivorous' -- and 'usufruct,' they are unaccustomed to the Latin 'fruor,' and unconscious therefore that the derivative 'fructus' must always, in right use, mean an enjoyed thing, they generalize every mature vegetable product under the term. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)
Its powerful bill enabled it to break, and its capacious, stone-supplied gizzard to digest, the hardest shells and kernels; and thus a kind of frugivorous vulture, it cleared away the decaying vegetable matter. ❋ Various (1841)
Mammals are considered frugivorous if the seed is dispersed and able to establish. ❋ Wikipedia (2009)
However, frugivorous fish, tortoises, lizards, and even amphibians also disperse seeds. ❋ Wikipedia (2009)
Endozoochory is generally a coevolved mutualistic relationship in which a plant surrounds seeds with an edible, nutritious fruit as a reward to frugivorous animals that consume it. ❋ Wikipedia (2009)
Some bird species have shorter intestines to rapidly pass seeds from fruits, while some frugivorous bat species have longer intestines. ❋ Wikipedia (2009)
For example, a single species of frugivorous bird may disperse fruits from several species of plants, or a few species of bird may disperse seeds of one plant species. ❋ Wikipedia (2009)
Many frugivorous birds feed mainly on fruits until nesting season when they incorporate protein rich insects into their diet. ❋ Wikipedia (2009)
An article by B.A. Loisell and J.G. Blake, Potential Consequences of Extinction of Frugivorous Birds, discusses the important role frugivorous birds have on ecosystems. ❋ Wikipedia (2009)
Potential consequences of extinction of frugivorous birds for shrubs of a tropical wet forest, in Levey, D. J., ❋ Wikipedia (2009)
In inland riverine swamp forests, they are primarily frugivorous, with leaves, flowers, insects, and bark providing the remainder of the diet. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Such activities will increase the pressure on timber trees and game species (large frugivorous birds, primates and large rodents), almost completely extirpated in this ecoregion. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The spotted cuscus (Spilocuscus maculatus), white-tailed rat (Uromys caudimaculatus), frugivorous birds, and the palm cockatoo (Probosciger aterrimus) all utilize these corridors. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In addition, traditional human activities like palm-heart extraction represent a severe threat to plants and frugivorous vertebrates. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Very large area requirements for frugivorous birds in monsoon rainforests of the Northern Territory, Australia. ❋ Unknown (2008)
From a frugivorous animal he has made himself a carnivorous one. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Most of the flora was probably established by long-distance dispersal, especially by frugivorous birds or bats, along the island arcs of Melanesia. ❋ Unknown (2007)
These people of the remote future were strict vegetarians, and while I was with them, in spite of some carnal cravings, I had to be frugivorous also. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
The orang-outang is the most anthropomorphous of the ape tribe, all of which are strictly frugivorous. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Except in children, there remain no traces of that instinct which determines, in all other animals, what aliment is natural or otherwise; and so perfectly obliterated are they in the reasoning adults of our species, that it has become necessary to urge considerations drawn from comparative anatomy to prove that we are naturally frugivorous. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Paleontologists [believe that] Tapejaras were frugivores. ❋ Lapizdemon (2015)
...He must be a frugivore because he is always asking to [blow me]. I guess he has not been getting his daily [allotment] of fruit, although he sure seems to to have an unusual desire for large quantities of [fructose]. ❋ Richard Hood (2009)
