Frugivorous Birds Eat Only Fruits

Frugivorous birds vary in seed dispersal effectivness depending on body mass .

It has been suggested that large birds are more effective dispersers than small ones because they consume a large number of fruits disperse

Seeds of different sizes and transport seeds over long distances.

Results suggest that large birds visit plant less frequently but remove higher number of seeds

Per visit than medium and small birds .

Seed removal however is higher for small

Seeds than for large seeds.

Small birds ingest few fruits and retain them for less time in the gut than large birds .

This short retention time determines that small

Birds visit plants more frequently to feed.

Yet the number of seeds that small birds can

Disperse is low.

Ref Hector Godinez -Alvarez

Leticia Rios- Casanova

And Begona- Peco

Ecol Evol 2020 Jun :10(12):6136--6143

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