The biggest examples I can think of are cows and deer. Numerous times they’ve been caught eating small animals yet are classified as herbivores, why?
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“A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage or marine algae, for the main component of its diet.”
Cows and deer eat mostly plants and have adaptations such as wide flat teeth for grinding plant material. They can eat meat and possibly digest it too but they evolved to eat plants.
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