African savanna hare

Nocturnality is an animal behavior characterized by being active during the night and sleeping during the day. The common adjective is "nocturnal",...

In zoology, a folivore is a herbivore that specializes in eating leaves. Mature leaves contain a high proportion of hard-to-digest cellulose, less ...

A frugivore is an animal that thrives mostly on raw fruits or succulent fruit-like produce of plants such as roots, shoots, nuts, and seeds. Approx...

Seed predation, often referred to as granivory, is a type of plant-animal interaction in which granivores (seed predators) feed on the seeds of pla...

A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example, foliage, for the main component of its die...

Lignivore is a herbivorous animal whose diet consists primarily or often solely of wood.

A cursorial organism is one that is adapted specifically to run. An animal can be considered cursorial if it has the ability to run fast (e.g. chee...

Jumping (saltation) can be distinguished from running, galloping, and other gaits where the entire body is temporarily airborne by the relatively l...

Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land (e.g., cats, ants, snails), as compared with aquatic animals, which liv...

Among animals, viviparity is the development of the embryo inside the body of the parent. The term 'viviparity' and its adjective form 'viviparous'...

Precocial species are those in which the young are relatively mature and mobile from the moment of birth or hatching. Precocial species are normall...

Solitary animals are those that live singly and meet only for courtship and mating.

Animals that do not make seasonal movements and stay in their native home ranges all year round are called not migrants or residents.