Frugivore

A frugivore is an animal that feeds primarily or less commonly exclusively on fruit. This method of feeding can be more efficient than consuming the stem, roots, or other vegetative portions of a plant, due to higher concentrations of sugars, vitamins or proteins that many plants put into fruit.

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By definition fruit is a means to which a plant reproduces, and is a very important energy investment to the plant. This energy investment may be understood as the stored nutrients which the plant seedling will use to grow before it has an established leaf and root system to grow with. As the reproductive means for the plant, the plant species may have may have evolved means to either prevent animals from consuming their fruits, or conversely the fruit may have evolved to be entice frugivores to the plant.

Frugivore: A frugivore is an animal that feeds primarily or less commonly exclusively on fruit. This method of feeding can be more efficient than consuming the stem, roots, or other vegetative portions of a plant, due to higher concentrations of sugars, vitamins or proteins that many plants put into fruit....

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Fruit: In botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant. In cuisine, when discussing fruit as food, the term usually refers to just those plant fruits that are sweet and fleshy, examples of which would include plum, apple and orange. However, a great many common vegeta...