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Fig frugivores

(Life; Embryophyta (plants); Angiospermae (flowering plants); Eudicotyledons; Order: Rosales; Family: Moraceae; Genus: Ficus)

 

Birds

Green Pigeon feeding on Ficus sansibarica in South Africa

Photograph © Duncan Butchart

Chimpanzee

Photograph © Diogo Verissimo

Humans

Do we eat fig wasps when we eat figs?

Fig-eating by Vertebrate Frugivores: A Global Review

Mike Shanahan's web page that has cross-referenced lists of fig tree species and vertebrate species that feed on figs.


Web authors Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

and Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA, France)

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