Herbivores can choose from such delights as wood roasted ratatouille topped with a farm fresh egg.

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Although the vast majority of modern reptiles and amphibians are carnivores, many fish are herbivores.

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Other large herbivores, especially giraffes, will eat the plants, probably because they are not as bothered by the ants.

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Giant herbivores that reached 80 tons had deforested more and more land and had to go far and wide for food.

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Until recently, British and American cattlemen fed their livestock meat-and-bone stuffs to produce heftier and more profitable animals, even though cows are herbivores.

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Here you can watch flightless steamer ducks, Andean condors and guanaco (rare llama-like herbivores), and explore the glacier-lined Beagle Channel, made famous by Darwin and Fitzroy.

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Plants that are symbiotic with ants can be found in other parts of the world, especially Central and South America, where there are no elephants, but large herbivores lived before they became extinct.

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But neither they nor the placid herbivores inspire anything close to awe, even with the aid of audience stimulants like surging symphonic music (by the shameless John Williams) and repeated closeups of wide-eyed, openmouthed actors.

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The herbivores are extremely territorial.

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Though foxes are of recent introduction in Australia (having been brought for sport by British settlers), many marsupial predators, now extinct, were present before the arrival of man in both his Aboriginal and his European forms, so the ecological system of plants, herbivores and carnivores in the eucalyptus forests would probably not have been that different in the evolutionary past.

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