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==Examples== Examples of insectivores include different kinds of species of [[carp]], [[opossum]], [[frog]]s, [[lizard]]s (e.g. [[chameleon]]s, [[gecko]]s), [[nightingale]]s, [[hirundinidae|swallows]], [[echidna]]s,<ref name=echidnainfo>{{cite web |url=http://www.animalinfo.org/species/zaglbrui.htm |title="Long-beaked Echidna (Zaglossus bruijni)" (entry) |website=animalinfo.org |publisher=West of Scotland & Ayr Group |access-date=1 April 2010}}</ref> [[numbat]]s, [[anteater]]s, [[armadillo]]s, [[aardvark]]s, [[pangolin]]s, [[aardwolf]]s,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hyaenidae.org/the-hyaenidae/aardwolf-proteles-cristatus.html |title=Aardwolf (''Proteles cristata'') |author=Holekamp, Kay E. |publisher=www.animalinfo.org |access-date=1 April 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100417192844/http://www.hyaenidae.org/the-hyaenidae/aardwolf-proteles-cristatus.html |archive-date=17 April 2010}}</ref> [[bat]]s, and [[spider]]s. Even large mammals are recorded as eating insects;<ref name="cascades"/> the [[sloth bear]] is perhaps the largest insectivore. Insects also can be insectivores; examples are [[dragonfly|dragonflies]], [[hornet]]s, [[ladybug]]s, [[Asilidae|robber flies]], and [[praying mantis]]es.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Economic Importance of Insects |author=Hill, Dennis S. |year=1997 |publisher=Springer |page=198 |isbn=978-0-412-49800-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RKQIAqMyBJgC |access-date=2010-04-01 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>{{rp|page=31}} Insectivory also features to various degrees amongst [[primates]], such as [[marmoset]]s, [[tamarin]]s, [[tarsiers]], [[galagos]] and [[aye-aye]].<ref name="JonesMartinPilbeam">{{cite book |title=The Primate Order |last=Stetoff |first=Rebecca |year=2006 |publisher=Marshall Cavendish |page=92 |isbn=978-0-7614-1816-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=akbsqE8-ar4C}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution |editor1=Jones, S. |editor2=Martin, R. |editor3=Pilbeam, D. |year=1994 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |place=Cambridge, UK |isbn=0-521-32370-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgeencyclo00step}}</ref>{{rp|pages=56β57}} There is some suggestion that the earliest primates were [[nocturnal]], [[arboreal]] insectivores.<ref name="Weiss&Mann">{{cite book |author1=Weiss, M.L. |author2=Mann, A.E. |year=1985 |title=Human Biology and Behaviour: An anthropological perspective |publisher=Little Brown & Co. |place=Boston, MA |isbn=0-673-39013-6}}</ref>
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