fruit-eating

Picker's cockroach is joined on the list by a mushroom that glows in the dark and another that blooms underwater, a spider that weaves giant webs, bacteria found on the remains of the Titanic, a fish found in Gulf of Mexico waters affected by the 2010 oil spill, a leech with enormous teeth, a cricket that pollinates a rare orchid, a giant, fruit-eating lizard, and a small antelope from West Africa.

Jumping cockroach makes top discoveries list 2011

-- In Brazil, the world's only fruit-eating frog leaps with its mouth wide open at ripe fruit hanging in trees.

Fun facts about frogs Post 2010

Other large mammals, as well as fruit-eating fish, have become rare or locally extinct in this region as a result of habitat destruction and loss of food sources, such as fruit trees.

Marajó varzea 2008

A female fruit-eating bat helps an unrelated female give birth by showing her how to hang in the proper way.

Marc Bekoff: Wild Justice and Moral Intelligence in Animals: Warfare Among Animals Is Extremely Rare 2010

When both the fruit-producing plant and the frugivore species benefit by fruit-eating behavior their interaction is called a mutualism.

Frugivore Wikipedia 2009

Biologists have also observed a female Rodrigues fruit-eating bat in Gainesville, Florida, helping another female to give birth by showing the pregnant female the correct birthing position – with head up and feed down.

Can Animals Tell The Difference Between Right And Wrong? | Impact Lab 2009

The ascorbic acid synthesis pathway was disabled by mutation during the long period in which our fruit-eating ancestors had no chance of developing vitamin C deficiences (Jukes and King 1975).

The Distinction Between Innate and Acquired Characteristics Griffiths, Paul 2009

Grandidier's baobab (Adansonia grandidieri), the largest baobab species on the island, is pollinated by nocturnal lemurs; other Malagasy species are pollinated by fruit-eating bats.

Biological diversity in Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands 2008

The humid tropical floodplain forests host a diversity of trees that produce fleshy fruit and are critical to the survival of fruit-eating species of fish, primates, and bats that enter the forest understory during the flood.

Gurupa varzea 2008

The humid tropical floodplain forests host a diversity of trees that produce fleshy fruit that are critical to the survival of fruit-eating fish that enter the forest understory during the flood.

Monte Alegre varzea 2008