How To Use Carnivora In A Sentence
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As explained in my article, detailed comparison indicates that the animal is not a carnivoran, but a squirrel.
That’s no mystery carnivore (part II)… it’s a giant squirrel!
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Creodonts are an extinct group of carnivorous mammals that were long thought to be the ancestors of modern Carnivora.
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These include such things as squalene (from shark liver oil), carnivorous plant extracts such as carnivora (venus fly trap), didrovaltrate which is an herbal extract from the Himalayan valerian plant; Acetaldehyde; benzaldehyde;
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US University of Chicago postgraduate candidate Laura · Polo said that "the very possible all dinosaur are evolve from the carnivora dinosaur ancestor come.
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While some biologists noted a vague superficial similarity with lemurs, most concluded that it was a viverrid: a member of the same carnivoran family as civets and genets*.
That’s no mystery carnivore (part I)
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The Northern immigrants to South America included the rodents, Carnivora (bears, cats, dogs, etc.), llamas and horses, bovids (particularly deer), and the tapirs and elephants.
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However, in a phylogenetic analysis of the complete mitochondrial genome of the Jamaican fruit bat it appeared more closely related to cetferungulates, a clade including Cetacea, Artiodactyla, Perissodactyla, and Carnivora.
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Skins of carnivora or the wool of ruminants must be procured at any price, and since there were plenty of musmons, it was agreed to consult on the means of forming a flock which might be brought up for the use of the colony.
The Mysterious Island
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Response directed at Mike: the 'fossa' I was referring to is not the osteological concavity that you are thinking of, but the Madagascan euplerid carnivoran Cryptoprocta ferox.
Giant hoatzins of doom
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The American mink is a representative of the large family Mustelidae belonging to the suborder Caniformia in the order Carnivora.
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I present a method developed to describe the entire dentition of the Carnivoramorpha and other mammalian meat eaters (Creodonta).
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The variations in morphology among dogs are obvious, but that they exceed by proper measures those of the rest of the Carnivora comes as a surprise.
"Intraspecific macroevolution" within domestic dog breeds - The Panda's Thumb
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The high sectorial trigonid and typical carnivoran shear patterns justify identification of UALVP 44186 as carnivoran.
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Even if pangolins are the sister group of carnivores, aardwolves are well nested within Carnivora in the family Hyaenidae.
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If domestic dogs are wolves, you would expect the two to be very close genetically, certainly closer than universally recognised non-domesticated carnivoran taxa.
Controversial origins of the domestic dog
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Most of them are 59 Chiroptera, but there are also 17 Rodentia, 11 Carnivora, 5 Edentada, 4 Marsupialia, 2 Primates, 2 Artiodactyla, 1 Perissodactyla, and 1 Lagomorpha.
Llanos
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The Northern immigrants to South America included the rodents, Carnivora (bears, cats, dogs, etc.), llamas and horses, bovids (particularly deer), and the tapirs and elephants.
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It is also true that not all Carnivora are carnivorous; some, such as bears and raccoons, are decidedly omnivorous, and at least one, the panda, is primarily vegetarian.
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It was formerly classed with the racoons, which it superficially resembles; and, as Jerdon remarks, it may be considered as a sort of link between the plantigrade and digitigrade carnivora.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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The primitive condition in carnivorans/carnivoramorphans is believed to be one in which the stapedial artery branches off the internal carotid.
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Carnivora have long teeth and claws for holding and killing prey; vegetarian animals have short teeth and no claws.
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But these formidable carnivora did not exist in the island, or at any rate they had not yet shown themselves.
The Mysterious Island
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The morphology of the middle and distal phalanx in Tapocyon exhibits a retractile claw condition, supporting this as the primitive condition for Carnivora / Carnivoramorpha.
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Lyssavirus is found naturally among chiropteran and carnivoran mammals and is spread by the exchange of body fluids.
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The badger, by contrast, is of the weasel family Mustelidae, order Carnivora.
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But they didn't seem to have been chewed up and still had intact legs, feet and heads, so they likely weren't killed by a carnivoran.
What killed the stag beetles?
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Marine mammals are divided into three orders: Carnivora, Sirenia and Cetacea.
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But cats are from the noble lineage Carnivora and, unlike some of its lesser members, such as omnivorous bears or, even more appalling, herbivorous pandas, they exclusively eat meat.
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Mosaics of convergences and noise in morphological phylogenies: what’s in a viverrid-like carnivoran?
That’s no mystery carnivore (part I)
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We will begin, therefore, with the animals belonging to the ruminantia -- the eighth in natural order; taking next the carnivora -- the fifth; and the smaller rodentia -- the sixth; while the birds and reptiles will follow in due course.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
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Most of them are 59 Chiroptera, but there are also 17 Rodentia, 11 Carnivora, 5 Edentada, 4 Marsupialia, 2 Primates, 2 Artiodactyla, 1 Perissodactyla, and 1 Lagomorpha.
Llanos
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The 48 mammal species include Chacma baboon Papio cynocephalus ursinus, 5 species of carnivora including the blackbacked jackal Canis mesomelas, ardwolf Proteles cristatus and serval Felis serval, 11 species of artiodactyla and 16 species of rodentia, 11 of which last are endemic to South Africa.
UKhahlamba Drakensberg Park, South Africa
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Fossil seals from late Neogene deposits in South America: a new pinniped (Carnivora, Mammalia) assemblage from Chile.
Archive 2006-02-01
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The talk was by Abby Drake, then a grad student, and reported on a huge digital morphometric comparison of the skulls of dogs and many representatives from the order Carnivora dogs, cats, bears, sea lions, etc.
"Intraspecific macroevolution" within domestic dog breeds - The Panda's Thumb
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These patterns of variation are also found for the wolf and across the Carnivora, suggesting that they existed before the domestication of dogs and are not a result of selective breeding.
"Intraspecific macroevolution" within domestic dog breeds - The Panda's Thumb
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Over hundreds and thousands of years, large carnivora like the tiger, the jaguar, the lion, the big cats that feed on other animals, have never got along with man, anywhere on the planet.
Questions & Answers - Valmik Thapar
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In fact, Haldane gives two examples where the evolutionary rates accord with his calculations average rate of speciation in the carnivora, and mammalia on page 522, his conclusion: “the agreement with the theory developed here is satisfactory”.
Haldane's non-dilemma - The Panda's Thumb
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Herbert much regretted that Top had not been able to catch one of these carnivora.
The Mysterious Island
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The 48 mammal species include Chacma baboon Papio cynocephalus ursinus, 5 species of carnivora including the blackbacked jackal Canis mesomelas, ardwolf Proteles cristatus and serval Felis serval, 11 species of artiodactyla and 16 species of rodentia, 11 of which last are endemic to South Africa.
UKhahlamba Drakensberg Park, South Africa
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An important factor in the diet of the herbivorous animals, and one absent from the food of the carnivora, is that carbohydrate, the building material of all green-meat - [food], cellulose, and there is some ground for thinking that the caecum is probably a region of special fermentive action upon it.
Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
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The details consisted principally of cave-dwellings and cracked marrow-bones, intersprinkled with fierce carnivora, hairy mammoths, and combats with rude flaked knives of flint; but the sensations were delicious.
LI-WAN, THE FAIR
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The way the animal holds its long hindlimbs (referring here to the photo showing the animal from behind) and the suggestion of a patagium now make sense, and the unusual curving shape of the long tail matches the tail posture reported for giant flying squirrels (Meijaard et al. 2006, p. 321) and is unlike that of viverrids and other carnivorans.
Archive 2007-01-01
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The fox belongs to the great order of flesh-eating animals called Carnivora, and of the family called
Winter Sunshine
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On the whole, the hedgehog appeared to evolve at a rate not significantly different from those of Primates, Proboscidea, and Rodentia but faster than those of Carnivora, Perissodactyla, and Artiodactyla.
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Unlike Primates, extreme differences in diet can be found in other mammalian orders such as Carnivora.
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The amount of shape variation among domestic dogs far exceeds that in wild species, and it is comparable to the disparity throughout the Carnivora.
"Intraspecific macroevolution" within domestic dog breeds - The Panda's Thumb
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According to the sailor, any animal, whatever it was, would be a lawful prize, and the rodents or carnivora which might get into the new snares would be well received at Granite House.
The Mysterious Island
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If this regression is used to predict the typical prey of theropods, it produces overestimates, at least for those species that were much larger than any of the carnivorans used in the regression.
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Notably, those carnivoran species that have become human commensals are all generalized omnivores smaller than most wolves: raccoons Procyon lotor, Red foxes Vulpes vulpes, Golden jackals Canis aureus and coyotes C. latrans.
Archive 2006-10-01
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US University of Chicago postgraduate candidate Laura · Polo said that "the very possible all dinosaur are evolve from the carnivora dinosaur ancestor come.
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The greatest shape distances between dog breeds clearly surpass the maximum divergence between species in the Carnivora.
"Intraspecific macroevolution" within domestic dog breeds - The Panda's Thumb
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Carnivora is the order of eutherian mammals that includes wolves - like this arctic wolf - dogs, cats, raccoons, bears, weasels, hyaenas, seals, and walruses, to name just a few.
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The saliva of carnivora contains no ptyalin and cannot predigest starches; that of vegetarian animals contains ptyalin for the predigestion of starches.
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The diagnostic character for Carnivora is the carnassial pair, the fourth upper premolar and first lower molar, which in this group have been modified as shearing blades for effective slicing of meat.
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Recent carnivorans can be divided into ambush- and pursuit-types on the basis of the animal's ability to manipulate food items with its forepaws.
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The slow clumsy creodonts, well adapted to the jungle thickets, were replaced by the swift intelligent cat and dog type carnivora as the dominant predators.
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Apparently, however, the jaws of theropods were relatively weaker for their length than those of carnivorans.
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Response directed at Mike: the 'fossa' I was referring to is not the osteological concavity that you are thinking of, but the Madagascan euplerid carnivoran Cryptoprocta ferox.
Giant hoatzins of doom
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They name this clade Pegasoferae, a name derived by uniting Pegasus (in their view a sort of bat-perissodactyl combination) with Ferae (the name they use for the carnivoran + pangolin clade).
Archive 2006-08-01
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A previous study had noted that the skull variation in dogs was bigger than the variation in the family Canidae, but the incredible result of Drake’s study was that the variation in shape of dog skulls was bigger than the variation in shape across the entire order Carnivora, which is 60 million years old and includes even mostly-aquatic forms.
"Intraspecific macroevolution" within domestic dog breeds - The Panda's Thumb
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Over 90% of the large mammalian specimens recovered represent members of the order Carnivora.
