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Table 2 Description of the diet categories. The categories assigned to the sampled species can be seen in Table 1

From: Cranial morphology in flying squirrels: diet, shape, and size disparity across tropical and temperate biomes

Diet categories

Description

Folivore 1

Diet that includes leaves and sprouts but not nuts and hard seeds

Folivore 2

Diet based mainly on very abrasive leaves (e.g. conifer needles) but not nuts and hard seeds

Frugivore

Diet based mainly on flesh fruit but not nuts, seeds or leaves

Nucivore

Diet that includes hard seeds and/or nuts but not leaves

Generalist

Diet that includes leaves, hard seeds and/or nuts

No info

No information available