English to German translations [PRO] Science - Zoology | | English term or phrase: cryptic herbivore | In one sample from the canopy of Peruvian rainforest, ants made up 69 percent of all the individual insects. In this specialized environment they function not only as predators and scavengers but also as **cryptic herbivores**, collecting the rich sugary excrement of aphids, treehoppers, and other sap-feeding homopterous insects they tend like cattle.
Gibt es dafür eine eingebürgerte deutsche Bezeichnung? Sonst würde ich sie "verkappte Pflanzenfresser" nennen. |
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| | German translation:siehe unten | Explanation: Mir sind mehrere Bezeichnungen eingefallen, leider habe ich aber für keine einen Beleg gefunden, es scheint keine eingebürgerte Bezeichnung zu geben.
Gedacht habe ich an "Pflanzenfresser zweiten Grades", "indirekte Pflanzenfresser", "heimliche Pflanzenfresser" - vielleicht hilft das ja trotzdem weiter. |
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Reference information: Hi
the German equivalent of "cryptic" may be in the last paragraph
http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:7XCpcQTVETcJ:www.awi.de...
Cryptic (zoology) - animals that are difficult to observe due to their behaviour or camouflage
A Wisdom Archive on Cryptic (zoology) - animals that are difficult to observe due to their behaviour or camouflage
Cryptic (zoology) - animals that are difficult to observe due to their behaviour or camouflage
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is this it?
kryptische
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anything to do with
kryptischen herbivoren??
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