You probably would call me a vegetarian. But scientists call me a herbivore because I only eat leaves, grass, and other plants.

你可能会称我为素食者。但科学家称我为草食动物，因为我只吃叶子、草和其它植物。

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Animals that are specialized to eat leaves are known as folivores.

专门吃树叶的动物被称为食叶动物。

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The eggs become small caterpillars.The small caterpillars eat leaves.

这蛋变成小的毛虫。这小毛虫吃树叶。

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When elephants eat huge quantities of leaves and grasses, other animals have trouble finding enough food to eat.

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They eat the grape leaves on the lower parts of the vine.

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Harvest leaf lettuces when the leaves are big enough to eat.

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In the wild, adult night monkeys eat leaves, insects and small lizards and frogs.

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Contestants strip the stalks and eat the leaves non-stop for an hour.

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Nigel Raine, another ecologist from Royal Holloway, University of London, also studies these ant plants, and says that giraffes will go ahead and eat the leaves of the plants, although ants will then swarm onto their face and mouth and try to bite them.

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