Abstract: There has been much discussion of the conspicuous differences in (1) body size and shape, (2) efficiency of the gastro-intestinal tract and (3) behavioural biology between those mammals subsisting mainly on animal matter and those that graze or browse on grass and (e.g. Moir, 1968; Vallenas et al., 1971; Jolly, 1972; Jarman, 1974; Wilson, 1975; Janis, 1976; Clutton-Brock, 1977). The former have been labelled as “insectivores” or “carnivores”, according to the kind of animal matter consumed, thereby following taxonomic, and thus evolutio...
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Ecology
Zoology