What kind of teeth do folivores have?

Question

folivores = leaf eaters

lets take a horse. how many molar/incisors does this animal have?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Horses aren't really folivores.  

Folivores tend to have molars with high, shearing surfaces for shredding leaves, and peg-like incisors for tearing off vegetation.

Typical folivores would include white-tailed deer, okapi, koalas and sloths.

Horses are more grazers, grammivores with high crowned, grinding molars and large incisors for ripping off the high-silica, tough grasses.

Answer 3

Most herbivores either have lophodont teeth (cusps forming ridges) or selenodont teeth (cusps forming crescents), usually high crowned.  Most also have a diastema (a big space between the canines and premolars).

The dental formulas are different for the different species - but are all written this way:

It/Ib Ct/Cb Pt/Pb Mt/Mb

Where It = number of incisors on one side on the top jaw

            Ib=number of incisors on one side on bottom

            Ct=number of canines on one side on top

            Cb=number of canines on one side on bottom

            Pt=number of premolars on one side on top

            Pb=number of premolars on one side on bottom

            Mt=number of molars on one side on top

            Mb=number of molars on one side on bottom

Horses have lophodont teeth that are high-crowned (hypsodont).  A horse's dental formula is:

a) Temporary teeth

    3/3 0/0  3/3  0/0  (24 teeth total)

b) Adult (permanent teeth)

    3/3  1/1   3 or 4/3  3/3  (40 or 42 teeth total) - females may lack canines

Although, I never thought of horses as folivores (I think of them more as grazers).  So, for  folivores/browsers, here is the dental formula for an adult giraffe:

0/3 0/1 3/3 3/3 (32 teeth total)

and for an adult koala:

3/1 1/0 1/1  4/4. (30 teeth total)

Hope that helps.