#Hippos secrete red sweat to stay cool in #WestAfrica 
Although #herbivores, parents fiercely protect infants leading to conflict with people. #PalmOil and #tobacco #deforestation are threats. #BoycottPalmOil 
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5-Jun-2025
Two big events shaped the #herbivores during 60 million years but their role remains
- well, until humans started #hunting them to #extinction and replacing them with cattle.
EurekAlert!Two big events shaped the herbivores during 60 million years but their role remainsTwo major environmental shifts have triggered global transformations in large herbivore communities. A new study with researchers from the University of Gothenburg show how these ecosystems remained remarkably resilient despite extinction and upheaval.
Europe's forest plants thrive best in light-rich, semi-open woodlands -- kept open by large herbivores https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/05/250514120052.htm
14-May-2025
Europe’s forest plants thrive best in light-rich, semi-open woodlands – kept open by large herbivores
A new study shows that most native European temperate forest plants are adapted to semi-open, light-filled #woodlands – formed over millions of years by the influence of large, free-ranging #herbivores
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1083806 #science #ecology #forests
EurekAlert!Europe’s forest plants thrive best in light-rich, semi-open woodlands – kept open by large herbivoresBefore Homo sapiens arrived, Europe’s forests were not dense and dark but shaped by open and light-rich woodland landscapes. Researchers from Aarhus University have analyzed 917 native forest plant species in Central and Western Europe and found that more than 80 percent prefer high-light conditions – environments traditionally created by large herbivores.
#Hippos secrete red sweat to stay cool in #WestAfrica Although #herbivores, parents fiercely protect infants leading to conflict with people. #PalmOil and #tobacco #deforestation are threats. #BoycottPalmOil ️ #Boycott4Wildlife
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Cruciferous #plants' pungent defense mechanism: How repurposed #stomatal #genes also fend off #herbivores.
#evolution #Brassicales #FAMA #myrosin_cells #WASABI_MAKER #SCAP1
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-cruciferous-pungent-defense-mechanism-repurposed.html
Phys.org · Cruciferous plants' pungent defense mechanism: How repurposed stomatal genes also fend off herbivores
Today in Cinnabar Moth News!
3 of 4 caterpillars I collected on 6 Jan on the NZ native pahohoraka pupated today. The 4th is a prepupa. Oddly, all have fed solely on pahohoraka (Senecio quadridentatus).
The small caterpillar I collected in Somerfield on European groundel has moulted.
I found *more* caterpillars in the city today, including on the South African gravel groundsel, maybe a new host association. https://inaturalist.nz/observations/258633900
#Climatechange is depleting #plant #nutrition, threatening #herbivores from #grasshoppers to giant #pandas
Rising #CO2 levels are driving faster plant growth but reducing #nutrient density, with alarming impacts across #ecosystems.
www.nationofchange.orgClimate change is depleting plant nutrition, threatening herbivores from grasshoppers to giant pandas | NationofChange
Recent #research finds that lots of large #herbivores like #elephants 
help plant #biodiversity in rainforests! Help big plant eaters and #plants to survive! 
#Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife 
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Mixed feeding large #herbivores consume 100s of both grass and browse species
Here, we revisited a long-standing debate on whether browse is nutritonally more important for #elephants (as browse is thought to contain high crude protein).
By analyzing carbon isotopes and nutrients in elephant fecal samples, we show that
1) high-browsing diets do not provide higher crude protein content for Asian elephants
and
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.13.622959v1 #ecology
Large herbivores have lived in Yellowstone National Park for more than 2,000 years #Yellowstone #environment #NationalPark #wildlife #herbivores https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/10/241030145732.htm
"Our dream is to expand the Aldabra giants’ habitats beyond the Anjajavy Reserve, so that this #tortoise can help regenerate forest and woodland across as much of #Madagascar as possible."
#gianttortoise #rewilding #tortoises #herbivores #conservation #ecology
https://www.rewildingmag.com/giant-tortoises-return-to-madagascar/
Rewilding Magazine · Giant Tortoises Are Back in Madagascar After 600 yearsGiant tortoises were once an integral part of Madagascar's ecology. Through reintroductions, scientists are hoping to help restore the land and boost its resilience.
Plant-eating #dinosaurs evolved backup teeth to eat tough food, research reveals https://phys.org/news/2024-08-dinosaurs-evolved-backup-teeth-tough.html
Trophic evolution in ornithopod dinosaurs revealed by dental wear https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-51697-9
"At the end of the #Cretaceous, the duck-billed #hadrosaurs were the most advanced #herbivores on Earth. New research has revealed just how voracious these dinosaurs were, with their average tooth worn away in less than two months as they consumed enormous amounts of #plants."
Beautiful #forest-#savanna #mosaics (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2019.11.003) in the Colombian Llanos, maintained by #herbivores and #fire
@ecology @plants @botany @wildfirescience @plantscience @nature @biodiversity @conservation
Artificial light at night make leaves inedible to #insects, resulting in a #decline in predatory insects, birds etc.
Artificial #light at #night is detrimental to the energy flow from #urban #plants to higher trophic levels, posing a potential threat to the maintenance of #biodiversity (e.g., #arthropod diversity, #bird #diversity in urban ecosystems.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2024.1392262/full
FrontiersFrontiers | Artificial light at night decreases leaf herbivory in typical urban areasArtificial light at night (ALAN) is exerting growing pressure on natural ecosystems, but its impact on biological interactions remains unclear. This study ai...
Bison return to Portugal: 8 European #bison have been translocated to northern #Portugal as part of an ambitious #rewilding project https://geographical.co.uk/news/bison-return-to-portugal
"These huge #herbivores were once found across much of lowland #Europe, but hunting and habitat loss took their toll... Finally, in 1927 the last wild #EuropeanBison was shot in the Caucasus. Fortunately, 54 #animals did remain alive in captivity... Today, there are an estimated 9,000 wild bison living free in Europe"
You don't need to justify #veganism by making up #AlternateFacts. Humans are not #herbivores. Not only is this demonstrably false, it goes against anthropological science. And evolution. We have adapted to eat meat, and it clearly has benefited us. The choice to be #vegan is an important ethical decision. Don't sully the ethics with #pseudoscience. Be vegan because it's the right thing to do.
Killing Large Non-Native Herbivores May Be A Conservation Mistake
by @grrlscientist via @medium
#culling #mammals #herbivores #conservation #ecology #SciComm https://grrlscientist.medium.com/killing-large-non-native-herbivores-may-be-a-conservation-mistake-8881a2374388
This theory suggests that we turned to animal flesh out of necessity when there were shortages of our nut, seed and wild cereal staples. Hominins are considered to be opportunistic scavengers of meat where they could find it, while relying on #plantbased diets. Even in the Neolithic as early farmers, diets were still largely plant-based with meat as an occasional feasting #food.
#herbivores #ancestors #vegan #veganism #plantpower
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/vegan-diet-history-veganism-plants-b2153951.html
The Independent · Who were the world’s very earliest vegans?