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omnivore

Animal that feeds on both plant and animal material. Omnivores have digestive adaptations intermediate between those of herbivores and carnivores, with relatively unspecialized digestive systems and gut micro-organisms that can digest a variety of foodstuffs. Omnivores include humans, the chimpanzee, the cockroach, and the ant.



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Though some people still maintain that dogs are omnivores because they sometimes see their pets eating grass, you can clearly see when we take a quick look at their digestive systems that they are mistaken.
It's at that point that we realised that just about all the animals we omnivores eat are vegetarian.
Many of us also obtain an emotional gratification when we eat, and most of us are omnivores, meaning we eat everything, including meat and poultry.
 
 
 
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