Omnivore preferably dry bones, for particular minerals and nutrients. Felines, which are usually regarded as obligate carnivores, occasionally eat grass to regurgitate indigestibles (e.g. hair, bones), aid with hemoglobin production, and as a laxative. Occasionally, it is found that animals historically classified as carnivorous may deliberately eat plant material. For example, in 2013, it was considered that American alligators ("Alligator mississippiensis") may be physiologically omnivorous once investigations had been conducted on why they occasionally eat fruits. It was suggested that alligators probably ate fruits both accidentally but also deliberately. "Life-history omnivores" is a specialized classification given to organisms that change their
Frank (given name) Frank (given name) Frank is a masculine given name. Ultimately from the Germanic tribal name of the Franks, in the early medieval Frankish Empire, the status of being "a Frank" became synonymous with that of a free man; hence also the English adjective "frank" (Middle English, from Old French "franc", 12th century). Use as a given name seems to arise already in the Carolingian period; the Old High German form "Francho, Franko" is on record from the 8th century. While "Frank" is a given name in its own right, in fact reflecting the Old Frankish form "*Frank", the given name