Giant pocket gopher

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

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.

Zoochory animals are those that can disperse plant seeds in several ways. Seeds can be transported on the outside of vertebrate animals (mostly mam...

A fossorial animal is one adapted to digging which lives primarily but not solely, underground. Some examples are badgers, naked mole-rats, clams, ...

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

A territory is a sociographical area that which an animal consistently defends against the conspecific competition (or, occasionally, against anima...

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

Polygyny is a mating system in which one male lives and mates with multiple females but each female only mates with a single male.

Polygamy is the practice of breeding with multiple partners. When a male breeds with more than one female at the same time – it is called polygyny....

Social animals are those animals that interact highly with other animals, usually of their own species (conspecifics), to the point of having a rec...