Find more facts and information on our topic page about
insectivore
insectivore
insectivore Any member of the order of carnivorous
mammals Insectivora, many of which eat insects. Almost worldwide in distribution, some species live underground, some on the ground and some in streams and ponds. Most insectivores have narrow snouts, long skulls and five-clawed feet. The order consists of three families: Erinaceidae (moon rats, gymures,
hedgehogs); Talpidae (
moles, shrew moles, desmans); and Soricidae (
shrews). Six other families, including tree shrews and solenodons, are also often part of the order.
Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.
|
Gardeners should give thanks for insectivores
Newspaper article from: Yakima Herald-Republic; 8/28/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...The meaning is: using insects for food. And we need more insectivores in many gardens to aid in insect control. If the insects...been made of one of the best, prettiest and friendliest insectivores around. They have not been given the credit deserved but...
|
|
A cause of mortality for aerial insectivores?(Short Communications)
Magazine article from: Wilson Bulletin; 6/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...spring (Weeks 1994). Eastern Phoebes are primarily aerial insectivores, but they also glean insects from a variety of substrates...needed to determine whether Eastern Phoebes and other aerial insectivores commonly mistake fly-fishing lures for food, and how frequently...
|
|
Experimental removal of insectivores from rain forest canopy: direct and indirect effects.
Magazine article from: Ecology; 9/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...Spiller and Schoener quantified lizard impact on insect abundance by insect order. Moreover, no data address the effects of insectivores on their prey within a more trophically complex ecosystem as typified by the tropical rain forest canopy. The present study...
|
|
Correction: Cuba Enigmatic Insectivore
News Wire article from: AP Online; 9/25/2003; 175 words
; AP Online 09-25-2003 Dateline: HAVANA In a Sept. 24 story about the discovery of a rare animal in Cuba, The Associated Press misidentified a scientist at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. He is Douglas Long, not David Long. Copyright 2003, AP News All Rights Reserved
|
|
|
Fruit in the diet of nestlings of the Puerto Rican tody, a tropical insectivore. (Short Communications)
Magazine article from: Wilson Bulletin; 3/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; Many tropical frugivorous birds supplement the diet of their nestlings with insects, particularly in the early stages of development (Lack 1968, Skutch 1969, Morton 1973). In some of these cases, the nestling diet is exclusively insects (e.g., Skutch 1944). Although some frugivorous birds feed
|
|
Ronald McDonald feels the pricks of his conscience: McDonald's can't win -- it comes up with a universally loved product, and all it gets is lawsuits, vilification and dead insectivores in its ice cream tubs.
Magazine article from: Marketing Week; 9/12/2002; ; 700+ words
; Have you noticed how McDonald's has become the corporate equivalent of tobacco? Despite their millions of adherents, both are universally despised and held to blame for almost all known afflictions and calamities. Tobacco has been identified as the cause of everything from underweight infants to
|
|
2007, Ecological Applications: Bird species and traits associated with logged and unlogged forest in Borneo.
Magazine article from: Borneo Research Bulletin; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...such as the terrestrial insectivore Argusianus argus and the...contrast, undergrowth insectivores such as Orthotomus atrogularis...hornbills, terrestrial insectivores, and canopy bark-gleaning insectivores while moderately affecting...
|
|
Cute-as-a-bug hedgehogs pointedly search out insects for food
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 7/12/1999; ; 670 words
; ...Hedgehogs are insectivores. Insectivores are small mammals that prefer...Besides hedgehogs, other insectivores include moles, tenrecs...the mammals alive today, insectivores are the most primitive...win the award for cutest insectivore. Despite their spikes...
|
|
|
BIRD ASSEMBLAGES OF PROTECTED AND EXPLOITED COASTAL WOODLANDS IN EAST-CENTRAL ARGENTINA.
Magazine article from: Wilson Bulletin; 9/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...avifaunas from a guild perspective, we found the insectivore guild and frugivore-insectivore guild differed substantially between protected...woodland, and the species richness of the insectivore guild was lower in the exploited woodland...
|
|
Researchers from University of Connecticut report recent findings in ecology.
Newspaper article from: Ecology, Environment & Conservation; 7/24/2009; 700+ words
; ...each of three feeding ensembles (aerial insectivores, frugivores and molossid insectivores). For each group of bats, analyses were...Patterns of species distribution for aerial insectivores were dependent on ordination axis, showing...
|
|
Insectivore
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
Insectivore Insectivores are predators that...swallows, and swifts. Insectivores that feed on flying...biological sonar. Other insectivores are gleaners, and...praying mantis. A few insectivore species find their...
|
|
insectivore
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
insectivore , term broadly given to...tenrec , and solenodon . Insectivores are small animals, ranging...radiations from a primitive insectivore stock. The tree-shrews...formerly classified as insectivores, but are now usually...
|
|
|
Tenrecs
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...family Tenrecidae. Insectivores are the most primitive...higher mammals, and insectivore like animals predated...The fossil remains of insectivores indicated that they...today ’ s insectivores date even back further...
|
|
|
Hedgehogs
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...often spine-covered members of the insectivore family Erinaceidae. The spiny hedgehogs...with the mother. Hedgehogs, like all insectivores, are very active animals that require...males. This species is the largest insectivore in the hedgehog family, reaching up...
|
|
Oligocene
Book article from: Animal Sciences
...followed rapidly by the appearance of insectivores . Now that whole colonies of foods...herbivores and carnivores to scavengers and insectivores. Only a few of these species survive...enormous, slow-paced vegetarians and insectivores. For example, glyptopons (armadillos...
|
