(a.) Feeding on fruit, as birds and other animals.
Example Sentences:
(1) These specializations may be interpreted as adaptation toward a more herbivorous-frugivorous diet.
(2) During the later Palaeocene and early Miocene, catarrhine primates and the evolving hominoids had adaptations for frugivorous diets, with the emphasis on soft foods.
(3) The morphology and density of neurons in the cerebellum, caudate nucleus, olfactory mitral stratum, and neocortical layer II suggest that there exists an initial delay in development in the frugivorous bat; through subsequent reordering, however, it becomes more advanced in development, in accordance with the more progressive status of the adult forms in its category.
(4) The pepsin activity is higher in the proventriculus of the carnivorous L. schach and the omnivorous A. tristis than in the frugivorous P. krameri.
(5) Other folivorous Malagasy strepsirhines also tend to have long shearing crests than frugivorous forms.
(6) In both sexes, the body weight adjusted mean incisor width of folivores was significantly smaller than that of either frugivores or omnivores.
(7) Given their large size relative to other arboreal frugivores, seed predation could provide a dietary niche for Old World monkeys.
(8) Carollia perspicillata (Phyllostomidae) is a frugivorous bat that emits low-intensity, broadband, frequency-modulated echolocation pulses through nostrils surrounded by a noseleaf.
(9) The histomorphology of the gastric apparatus, the pepsin level and the optimum pH for pepsin were investigated in Psittacula krameri (frugivore), Lanius schach (carnivore) and Acridotheres tristis (omnivore) species of birds.
(10) Eight anticoagulant rodenticides were used against Rattus norvegicus, R. r. frugivorous and Muss musculus.
(11) The development of the main brain components in two fetal bats (one insectivorous and one frugivorous type) is studied quantitatively and comparatively.
(12) On the other hand, L. f. mayottensis is more generalized dietarily (the parts of 12 plant species accounting for 90% of feeding time), and is primarily frugivorous (64% of feeding time spent eating fruit, with a monthly maximum during the wet season of 79%.
(13) In addition, there are no diurnal sympatric primate frugivores.
(14) The telencephalon, cerebellum, and diencephalon grow faster in the frugivorous bat.
(15) The percentage reaction force during incisal biting is lower in man than in the other primates, and lower in the frugivorous primates than in the macaque.
(16) With these MAbs we have examined rabies viruses from vampire, insectivorous and frugivorous bats from the Americas, Africa, Europe and the Soviet Union and have compared them with isolates from terrestrial species including man.
(17) On the other hand, mean indices of the lateral geniculate body distinguish between three groups : the Megachiroptera (mean 869); the frugivorous and nectarivorous Microchiroptera (mean 293); the insect-eating, blood sucking, and fish eating Microchiroptera (mean 135).
(18) Folivorous primates occupy smaller home range areas for their body weight than do frugivores and omnivores.
(19) The fungus was not found in 581 other bats representing R. hardwickei hardwickei, three more insectivorous and one frugivorous species investigated from several sites in Delhi and New Delhi metropolitan areas.
(20) These characteristics are not as pronounced in the less herbivorous rhesus, even less so in the frugivorous capuchin and the least in the insectivorous marmoset.
Toucan
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of fruit-eating birds of tropical America belonging to Ramphastos, Pteroglossus, and allied genera of the family Ramphastidae. They have a very large, but light and thin, beak, often nearly as long as the body itself. Most of the species are brilliantly colored with red, yellow, white, and black in striking contrast.
(n.) A modern constellation of the southern hemisphere.
Example Sentences:
(1) The strains came from various countries; 13 were from stools (including one from a toucan), 13 from wounds, 11 from urine, five from blood (including one from a snake), five from the respiratory tract (four sputum, one lung), 12 from miscellaneous sources and six from unknown sources.
(2) Psttacines, pittas, and toucans accounted for 92% of the VVND virus isolations from exotic birds.
(3) Several new species and subspecies of avian Plasmodium have been found in the course of this study, including P. octamerium Manwell, 1968 in a Pintail Whydah, Vidua macoura, from Africa; P paranucleophilum Manwell & Sessler, 1971 in a South American tanager, Tachyphonus sp; and P. nucleophilum toucani Manwell & Sessler 1971 in a Swainson's Toucan, Ramphastos s. swainsonii.
(4) Toucans appear to be highly susceptible to pseudotuberculosis.
(5) As the sky turned lilac, I saw hundreds flutter past – red and blue macaws in pairs, companies of green parrots, flotillas of ibis gliding in elegant V-formation, as well as toucans, nightjars, lapwings and pauraques.
(6) In 1997 a police informer told his handlers that Los Tucanes de Tijuana, the Toucans of Tijuana, were sponsored by Ramon Arellano-Felix, who with his brother Benjamin headed the Tijuana drug cartel.
(7) The toucan had been in contact with two macaws that had died 5 days before the toucan died and were diagnosed by histology as having herpesvirus hepatitis.
(8) From the main town on the western shore, there is a path tracing the edges of the water through the lush Atlantic forest — here there are guava trees, purple Jabu Ti Caba berries, and even the occasional monkey and toucan.
(9) The main pathologic finding in the toucan consisted of a severe necrotizing hepatitis with intranuclear inclusions in the liver and spleen.