Animals that are Herbivorous

A herbivore is classified as an animal that primarily feeds on plant matter. The animals that do so require several adaptations that allow them to consume plants, as flora has outer cell walls that make them harder to break down.

Herbivores have broad molars that can grind the plants into easily consumable pieces. Several of them are also ruminants, i.e., their stomachs have more than one chamber. The plant matter softens in the first chamber, where the specialized bacteria break them down. This partially digested food or cud is regurgitated and chewed again, and swallowed. The cud is then sent into the third and fourth chambers, which are finally wholly digested.

Herbivorous Animals

List of Animals that are Herbivorous

Mammals

  • Abert’s Squirrel
  • Abyssinian Hare
  • Acacia Rat
  • Addax
  • Afghan Pika
  • African Brush-tailed Porcupine
  • African Buffalo
  • African Bush Elephant
  • African Forest Elephant
  • African Grass Rat
  • African Manatee
  • African Marsh Rat
  • African Palm Civet
  • African Pygmy Squirrel
  • African Savanna Hare
  • African Wild Ass
  • Agile Gibbon
  • Agile Wallaby
  • Alaska Marmot
  • Alaskan Hare
  • Aldabra Flying Fox
  • Allied Rock-wallaby
  • Alpaca
  • Alpine Chipmunk
  • Alpine Ibex
  • Alpine Marmot
  • Alpine Musk Deer
  • Alpine Pika
  • Amami Rabbit
  • Amazonian Manatee
  • American Beaver
  • American Bison
  • American Hog-Nosed Skunk
  • American Pika
  • American Red Squirrel
  • Angola Colobus
  • Ankarana Sportive Lemur
  • Annamite Striped Rabbit
  • Antelope Jackrabbit
  • Antilopine Kangaroo
  • Appalachian Cottontail
  • Arabian Oryx
  • Arabian Tahr
  • Arctic Hare
  • Argali
  • Arizona Cotton Rat
  • Arizona Pocket Mouse
  • Armored Rat
  • Arunachal Macaque
  • Ashy Chinchilla Rat
  • Ashy-headed Flying Fox
  • Asia Minor Ground Squirrel
  • Asian Badger
  • Asian Elephant
  • Asian Red-cheeked Squirrel
  • Asian Wild Water Buffalo
  • Asiatic Brush-tailed Porcupine
  • Atlantic Bamboo Rat
  • Atlantic Titi
  • Axis Deer
  • Aye-Aye
  • Azara’s Agouti
  • Bactrian Deer
  • Bailey’s Pocket Mouse
  • Baird’s Tapir
  • Baja Pocket Mouse
  • Bald Uakari
  • Banana Bat
  • Banded Hare-wallaby
  • Banded Mongoose
  • Bank Vole
  • Banteng
  • Barasingha
  • Barbary Ground Squirrel
  • Barbary Sheep
  • Barbary Striped Grass Mouse
  • Bawean Deer
  • Beach Vole
  • Beecroft’s Flying Squirrel
  • Bengal Slow Loris
  • Bennett’s Tree-kangaroo
  • Bharal
  • Bidentate Yellow-eared Bat
  • Big-headed Mole-rat
  • Bighorn Sheep
  • Binturong
  • Bioko Allen’s Bushbaby
  • Black Agouti
  • Black Bearded Saki
  • Black Colobus
  • Black Crested Gibbon
  • Black Duiker
  • Black Dwarf Porcupine
  • Black Flying Fox
  • Black Flying Squirrel
  • Black Giant Squirrel
  • Black Howler Monkey
  • Black Jackrabbit
  • Black Lemur
  • Black Musk Deer
  • Black Rhinoceros
  • Black Snub-nosed Monkey
  • Black Wallaroo
  • Black Wildebeest
  • Black-and-white Ruffed Lemur
  • Black Buck
  • Black-capped Marmot
  • Black-eared Flying Fox
  • Black-headed Night Monkey
  • Black-Headed Spider Monkey
  • Blackish Deer Mouse
  • Black-striped Wallaby
  • Black-tailed Jackrabbit
  • Black-tailed Prairie Dog
  • Black-tufted Marmoset
  • Blue Duiker
  • Blue Monkey
  • Blue Wildebeest
  • Bobak Marmot
  • Bohor Reedbuck
  • Bolivian Chinchilla Rat
  • Bongo Antelope
  • Bonin Flying Fox
  • Bonobo
  • Bontebok
  • Boodie
  • Bornean Orangutan
  • Bornean White-bearded Gibbon
  • Bornean Yellow Muntjac
  • Borneo Elephant
  • Borneo Fruit Bat
  • Botta’s Pocket Gopher
  • Bouvier’s Red Colobus
  • Brazilian Big-eyed Bat
  • Brazilian Guinea Pig
  • Brazilian Tapir
  • Bridled Nail-tail Wallaby
  • Bristle-spined Rat
  • Broad-headed Spiny Rat
  • Broom Hare
  • Brown Howler
  • Brown Palm Civet
  • Brown Spider Monkey
  • Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth
  • Brush Rabbit
  • Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby
  • Buettikofer’s Epauletted Fruit Bat
  • Buffy Flower Bat
  • Buffy-headed Marmoset
  • Buller’s Pocket Gopher
  • Bulmer’s Fruit Bat
  • Bunny Rat
  • Bunyoro Rabbit
  • Bush Vlei Rat
  • Bushbuck
  • Bushy-tailed Woodrat
  • Cabrera’s Vole
  • California Ground Squirrel
  • California Kangaroo Rat
  • California Mouse
  • California Pocket Mouse
  • California Vole
  • Camas Pocket Gopher
  • Cameroon Scaly-tail
  • Campbell’s Dwarf Hamster
  • Cape Dune Mole-rat
  • Cape Grysbok
  • Cape Hare
  • Cape Mole-rat
  • Cape Porcupine
  • Capped Langur
  • Capybara
  • Cascade Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel
  • Caucasian Squirrel
  • Cave Nectar Bat
  • Celebes Crested Macaque
  • Central American Agouti
  • Central American Dwarf Squirrel
  • Central Rock Rat
  • Central Texas Pocket Gopher
  • Chacoan Mara
  • Chamois
  • Cheesman’s Gerbil
  • Chihuahuan Pocket Mouse
  • Chilean Rock Rat
  • Chinese Goral
  • Chinkara
  • Chiriqui Pocket Gopher
  • Chisel-toothed Kangaroo Rat
  • Cinereus Ringtail Possum
  • Cliff Chipmunk
  • Collared Brown Lemur
  • Collared Peccary
  • Collared Pika
  • Collared Titi
  • Collared Tuco-tuco
  • Colorado Chipmunk
  • Columbian Ground Squirrel
  • Comb-toed Jerboa
  • Commissaris’s Long-tongued Bat
  • Common Blossom Bat
  • Common Brown Lemur
  • Common Brushtail Possum
  • Common Duiker
  • Common Eland
  • Common Hippo
  • Common Marmoset
  • Common Mole-rat
  • Common Ringtail Possum
  • Common Squirrel Monkey
  • Common Tube-nosed Fruit bat
  • Common Vole
  • Common Wallaroo
  • Common Wombat
  • Conover’s Tuco-tuco
  • Coppery Brushtail Possum
  • Coquerel’s Sifaka
  • Corsican Hare
  • Cozumel Raccoon
  • Creeping Vole
  • Crested Porcupine
  • Cretan Wildcat
  • Crowned Lemur
  • Crowned Sifaka
  • Cuban Amazon
  • Cuvier’s Gazelle
  • Dama Gazelle
  • Damaraland Mole-rat
  • Dark Kangaroo Mouse
  • Dassie Rat
  • Daurian Ground Squirrel
  • Daurian Pika
  • Dayak Fruit Bat
  • Desert Cottontail
  • Desert Hare
  • Desert Kangaroo Rat
  • Desert Mouse
  • Desert Pocket Gopher
  • Desert Pocket Mouse
  • Desert Warthog
  • Desert Woodrat
  • Diademed Sifaka
  • Djungarian Hamster
  • Domestic Guinea Pig
  • Domestic Sheep
  • Domestic Yak
  • Donkey
  • Dorcas Gazelle
  • Douglas Squirrel
  • Dragon Tube-nosed Fruit Bat
  • Dromedary Camel
  • Dugong
  • Dusky Leaf Monkey
  • East African Oryx
  • Eastern Chipmunk
  • Eastern Cottontail
  • Eastern Gorilla
  • Eastern Grey Kangaroo
  • Eastern Pygmy Possum
  • Eastern Woolly Lemur
  • Eld’s Deer
  • Elk
  • Eurasian Beaver
  • European Ground Squirrel
  • European Hamster
  • European Hare
  • European Rabbit
  • European Turtle Dove
  • European Water Vole
  • Fallow Deer
  • Fat Sand Rat
  • Fat-tailed Dwarf Lemur
  • Field Vole
  • Four-horned Antelope
  • François’ Langur
  • Gaur
  • Gee’s Golden Langur
  • Gemsbok
  • Geoffroy’s Spider Monkey
  • Gerenuk
  • Giant Eland
  • Giant Forest Hog
  • Giant Golden-crowned Flying Fox
  • Giant Panda
  • Gilbert’s Potoroo
  • Giraffe
  • Goitered Gazelle
  • Gold Dust Day Gecko
  • Golden Bamboo Lemur
  • Golden Monkey
  • Golden Snub-nosed Monkey
  • Golden-bellied Mangabey
  • Golden-crowned Sifaka
  • Golden-mantled Tree-kangaroo
  • Goodfellow’s Tree-kangaroo
  • Grant’s Gazelle
  • Gray Fox
  • Great Flying Fox
  • Great Gerbil
  • Greater Bamboo Lemur
  • Greater Cane Rat
  • Greater Glider
  • Greater Kudu
  • Greater Mouse-deer
  • Greater Short-nosed Fruit Bat
  • Green Monkey
  • Grévy’s Zebra
  • Grey Rhebok
  • Grey-headed Flying Fox
  • Groundhog
  • Guanaco
  • Guatemalan Black Howler
  • Gunnison’s Prairie Dog
  • Hammer-headed Bat
  • Harris’s Antelope Squirrel
  • Hartebeest
  • Hazel Dormouse
  • Himalayan Marmot
  • Himalayan Tahr
  • Hirola
  • Hispid Cotton Rat
  • Hispid Hare
  • Hoary Marmot
  • Hoffmann’s Two-Toed Sloth
  • Hog Badger
  • Hog Deer
  • Honduran White Bat
  • Honey Possum
  • Hopi Сhipmunk
  • Idaho Ground Squirrel
  • Ili Pika
  • Impala
  • Indian Elephant
  • Indian Flying Fox
  • Indian Porcupine
  • Indian Rhinoceros
  • Indri
  • Jambu Fruit Dove
  • James’s Flamingo
  • Japanese Dwarf Flying Squirrel
  • Japanese Hare
  • Japanese Serow
  • Japanese Squirrel
  • Java Mouse-deer
  • Javan Rhinoceros
  • Kiang
  • King Colobus
  • Kinkajou
  • Kirk’s Dik-dik
  • Koala
  • Laotian Rock Rat
  • Lar Gibbon
  • Large Flying Fox
  • Least Chipmunk
  • Lechwe
  • Lesser Capybara
  • Lesser Kudu
  • Lesser Mouse-deer
  • L’Hoest’s Monkey
  • Linnaeus’s Two-toed Sloth
  • Little Red Flying Fox
  • Llama
  • Long-tailed Chinchilla
  • Long-tailed Goral
  • Lyle’s Flying Fox
  • Madagascan Flying Fox
  • Mahogany Glider
  • Malayan Porcupine
  • Malayan Tapir
  • Maned Sloth
  • Mantled Guereza
  • Mantled Howler Monkey
  • Markhor
  • Maroon Leaf Monkey
  • Marsh Deer
  • Marsh Rabbit
  • Marsh Rice Rat
  • Masked Palm Civet
  • Meadow Jumping Mouse
  • Meadow Vole
  • Merriam’s Chipmunk
  • Mexican Gray Squirrel
  • Mohave Ground Squirrel
  • Mongolian Gerbil
  • Mongoose Lemur
  • Monk Saki
  • Moose
  • Mountain Beaver
  • Mountain Cottontail
  • Mountain Gazelle
  • Mountain Goat
  • Mountain Hare
  • Mountain Reedbuck
  • Mountain Tapir
  • Mountain Zebra
  • Mule Deer
  • Muskox
  • Muskrat
  • New England Cottontail
  • Nile Lechwe
  • Nilgai
  • Nilgiri Langur
  • Nilgiri Marten
  • Nilgiri Tahr
  • North American Porcupine
  • Northern Flying Squirrel
  • Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat
  • Northern Pika
  • Northern Sportive Lemur
  • Northern Treeshrew
  • Norway Lemming
  • Nubian Ibex
  • Okapi
  • Olympic Marmot
  • Pampas Deer
  • Panamanian Night Monkey
  • Parma Wallaby
  • Patagonian Mara
  • Père David’s Deer
  • Persian Fallow Deer
  • Persian Onager
  • Peruvian Spider Monkey
  • Philippine Deer
  • Philippine Flying Lemur
  • Philippine Mouse-deer
  • Prairie Vole
  • Proboscis Monkey
  • Pronghorn
  • Pinyon Mouse
  • Plains Rat
  • Plains Zebra
  • Przewalski’s Horse
  • Puku
  • Pygmy Hippo
  • Pygmy Marmoset
  • Pygmy Rabbit
  • Pyrenean Chamois
  • Quokka
  • Red Deer
  • Red Giant Flying Squirrel
  • Red Howler Monkey
  • Red Kangaroo
  • Red Lemur
  • Red Panda
  • Red Ruffed Lemur
  • Red Squirrel
  • Reindeer
  • Roan Antelope
  • Roborovski Hamster
  • Rock Hyrax
  • Rodrigues Flying Fox
  • Roe Deer
  • Royal Antelope
  • Rusa Deer
  • Ryukyu Flying Fox
  • Sable Antelope
  • Saiga Antelope
  • Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse
  • Sambar
  • San Joaquin Antelope Squirrel
  • Scimitar Oryx
  • Scrub Hare
  • Shark Bay Mouse
  • Sharpe’s Grysbok
  • Siamang Gibbon
  • Siberian Flying Squirrel
  • Siberian Ibex
  • Siberian Musk Deer
  • Siberian Roe Deer
  • Sika Deer
  • Silky Sifaka
  • Silvery Gibbon
  • Silvery Marmoset
  • Slender Mongoose
  • Snowshoe Hare
  • Sooty Mangabey
  • South African Springhare
  • Southern Pudu
  • Southern White Rhinoceros
  • Spanish Ibex
  • Speckled Ground Squirrel
  • Spectacled Bear
  • Speke’s Gazelle
  • Spider Monkey
  • Spotted Ground Squirrel
  • Springbok
  • Sri Lankan Elephant
  • Striped Ground Squirrel
  • Sumatran Elephant
  • Sumatran Orangutan
  • Sumatran Rhinoceros
  • Sunda Flying Lemur
  • Sunda Slow Loris
  • Swamp Rabbit
  • Swamp Wallaby
  • Takin
  • Tammar Wallaby
  • Tasmanian Pademelon
  • Thinhorn Sheep
  • Thomson’s Gazelle
  • Tibetan Antelope
  • Tonkean Macaque
  • Toque Macaque
  • Tufted Deer
  • Tufted Gray Langur
  • Uinta Chipmunk
  • Uinta Ground Squirrel
  • Urial
  • Utah Prairie Dog
  • Vancouver Island Marmot
  • Variegated Squirrel
  • Verreaux’s Sifaka
  • Vicuna
  • Visayan Spotted Deer
  • Volcano Rabbit
  • Walia Ibex
  • Water Buffalo
  • Water Deer
  • Waterbuck
  • West Indian Manatee
  • Western Gorilla
  • Western Grey Kangaroo
  • Western Pygmy Possum
  • Western Red Colobus
  • White Rhinoceros
  • White-tailed Deer
  • Wild Goat
  • Wild Yak
  • Woodland Dormouse
  • Woolly Flying Squirrel
  • Yucatan deer mouse
  • Zanzibar Red Colobus

Birds

  • African Collared Dove
  • African Grey Parrot
  • Alexandrine Parakeet
  • American Golden Plover
  • American Goldfinch
  • American Wigeon
  • Andean Flamingo
  • Anna’s Hummingbird
  • ʻApapane
  • Apostlebird
  • Asian Golden Weaver
  • Atlantic Canary
  • Azores Bullfinch
  • Baltimore Oriole
  • Barbary Dove
  • Bar-headed Goose
  • Barnacle Goose
  • Beautiful Firetail
  • Bee Hummingbird
  • Black Swan
  • Black-chinned Hummingbird
  • Black-cowled Oriole
  • Black-headed Duck
  • Black-necked Swan
  • Blue Crane
  • Blue-and-gold Macaw
  • Blue-billed Curassow
  • Blue-black Grassquit
  • Blue-crowned Motmot
  • Blue-headed Parrot
  • Blue-throated Macaw
  • Blue-winged Teal
  • Bobolink
  • Bohemian Waxwing
  • Bourke’s Parrot
  • Brewer’s Blackbird
  • Brewer’s Sparrow
  • Broad-tailed Hummingbird
  • Brown Quail
  • Brown-headed Cowbird
  • Brown-throated Sunbird
  • Budgerigar
  • Burrowing Owl
  • California Quail
  • Calliope Hummingbird
  • Canada Goose
  • Cape Barren Goose
  • Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo
  • Carolina Parakeet
  • Cedar Waxwing
  • Chipping Sparrow
  • Chukar Partridge
  • Cinereous Tinamou
  • Clark’s Nutcracker
  • Clay-colored Robin
  • Coal Tit
  • Coastal Plain Cooter
  • Cockatiel
  • Common Chaffinch
  • Common Crane
  • Common Ground Dove
  • Common Quail
  • Common Wood Pigeon
  • Diamond Firetail
  • Dusky Grouse
  • Eastern Meadowlark
  • Eclectus Parrot
  • Egyptian Goose
  • Emperor Goose
  • Emu
  • Eurasian Bullfinch
  • Eurasian Collared Dove
  • Eurasian Teal
  • Eurasian Tree Sparrow
  • European Goldfinch
  • European Greenfinch
  • Gambel’s Quail
  • Gang-gang Cockatoo
  • Golden Oriole
  • Golden Pheasant
  • Gouldian Finch
  • Grasshopper Sparrow
  • Gray Catbird
  • Great Bustard
  • Great Green Macaw
  • Great Hornbill
  • Great Tit
  • Greater Prairie Chicken
  • Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
  • Greater Sage Grouse
  • Green Broadbill
  • Green-cheeked Parakeet
  • Green-winged Macaw
  • Green-winged Teal
  • Grey Partridge
  • Greylag Goose
  • Hawaiian Goose
  • Henslow’s Sparrow
  • Himalayan Monal
  • Hoatzin
  • House Finch
  • Hyacinth Macaw
  • Inca Dove
  • Indigo Bunting
  • Japanese Quail
  • Kakapo
  • Keel-billed Toucan
  • Knysna Turaco
  • Lear’s Macaw
  • Lesser Flamingo
  • Lesser Prairie Chicken
  • Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo
  • Military Macaw
  • Mistle Thrush
  • Monk Parakeet
  • Mountain Bluebird
  • Mountain Quail
  • Mourning Dove
  • Mute Swan
  • Nanday Parakeet
  • Nicobar Pigeon
  • Nightingale
  • Northern Cardinal
  • Ortolan Bunting
  • Ostrich
  • Painted Bunting
  • Palm Cockatoo
  • Pesquet’s Parrot
  • Pink Pigeon
  • Purple Finch
  • Rainbow Lorikeet
  • Red Crossbill
  • Resplendent Quetzal
  • Rhinoceros Hornbill
  • Ringed Teal
  • Ring-necked Duck
  • Rock Ptarmigan
  • Rufous Hummingbird
  • Sandhill Crane
  • Sarus Crane
  • Satin Bowerbird
  • Savannah Sparrow
  • Scarlet Macaw
  • Senegal Parrot
  • Siberian Crane
  • Silver Pheasant
  • Snow Goose
  • Song Sparrow
  • Southern Cassowary
  • Spix’s Macaw
  • Spotted Dove
  • Sun Parakeet
  • Swan Goose
  • Toco Toucan
  • Trumpeter Swan
  • Tundra Swan
  • Victoria Crowned Pigeon
  • Wattled Crane
  • White Cockatoo
  • Whooper Swan
  • Willow Ptarmigan
  • Zebra Finch

Reptiles

Amphibians

  • Northern Red-legged Frog

Invertebrates

  • California Sea Hare
  • Cittarium Pica
  • Dwarf Sea Hare
  • Grove Snail
  • Ragged Sea Hare
  • Spotted Sea Hare

FAQs

1. What herbivores live in the tundra?

Hares, reindeer, squirrels, etc.

2. What percentage of animals are herbivores?

32%

3. What herbivores live in Australia?

Koalas, possums, kangaroos, etc.

4. What herbivores live in Africa?

Elephants, giraffes, rhinoceros, zebras, gazelles, etc.

5. What herbivores live in the rainforest?

Toucans, sloths, turtles, etc.

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