How To Use Insectivore In A Sentence
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These active insectivores are usually pretty small, roughly 5.5 inches in length, give or take a half-inch.
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Omnivores and insectivores exhibit different fuel-use strategies to overcome the physiological challenges of migration.
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Humans evolved from insectivore, like most of the primates, to scavenger to hunter and the more meat we ate, the larger and bigger our brains and our bodies got.
Are we meat eaters or vegetarians? Part I | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
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It seems, however, that insectivores and fruit-eating omnivores exhibit different migration strategies, each with an associated suite of morphological and behavioral adaptations to overcome the physical challenges of migration.
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Aside from the obvious connotation of a burrowing insectivore, a mole could also mean a small congenital growth on the human skin, usually slightly raised and dark and sometimes hairy.
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Woodcreepers live primarily in lowland tropical forests and are mainly insectivores.
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Insectivores are fairly common because insects are very common but the small size and low nutrient value of insects means that most insectivorous mammals are small, except the anteaters.
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The narrow-faced insectivore entrepreneur blinked.
The Lives of Felix Gunderson
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Without the immense diversity of fruits, wrote Loren Eiseley in The Immense Journey, “man might still be a nocturnal insectivore gnawing a roach in the dark.”
The Fruit Hunters
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Insectivore molars from category 5 predator assemblages are even more dramatically digested.
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Labels: insectivore, rediscovered posted by Chad Arment @ 1: 31 PM
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When the dinosaurs ruled the world, the mammals hid in the shadows, daring to grow no bigger than shrew-like insectivores that hunted at night.
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The insectivore hedgehog has an unclear evolutionary-rate pattern, as shown by the inconsistent results obtained with the two different tests.
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There are a few primitive forms that secrete toxins—the platypus has poison spines, and an unusual insectivore on a few Caribbean islands, Solenodon, has grooved fangs and secretes a salivary toxin, and itty-bitty shrews have toxic saliva—but our class just hasn't had much natural talent for venom.
The Panda's Thumb: June 2005 Archives
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Insectivore molars from category 5 predator assemblages are even more dramatically digested.
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There are also four insectivore non-endemic species of bats (Thyroptera discifera, Myotis keaysi, Molossus bondae, and Tadarida aurispinosa) that are found in other neotropical regions excluding Venezuela.
Cordillera La Costa montane forests
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One of only two species of solenodon, the Cuban solenodon is a rare insectivore that resembles a large rat.
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Primarily an insectivore, the desman's diet consists of aquatic insects and their larvae, along with snails and small, slow-moving fish, which are attracted to its trenches by the musk smell and aerated water it leaves in its wake.
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In all but the role of small insectivore, omnivore, and rodent-like herbivore, the therapsids were eventually supplanted by the archosaurs.
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Again, the saltatory insectivores of Africa (_Macroscelides_) not only resemble the kangaroo family (_Macropodidæ_) in their jumping habits and long hind legs, but also in the structure of their molar teeth, and even further, as I have elsewhere [52] pointed out, in a certain similarity of the upper cutting teeth, or incisors.
On the Genesis of Species
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Gallus gallus is an herbivore and insectivore.
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The highest form of insectivore left in CONUS is the spider.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Post WW ecology. North America.
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Primates, insectivores, and condylarths are recognized by the beginning of the Cenozoic, and by the start of the Eocene, most modern groups had become established.
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Are frugivores relatively rare and insectivores quite common?
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It could be a marsupial rat or mole or something opossumlike, or a rodent, insectivore, or even a primate akin to a tarsier or loris.
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One of the interesting things about shrews, hedgehogs, moles and solenodons is that they are insectivores (they eat mostly insects.)
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On the breeding grounds, Hermit Thrushes are strict insectivores, eating primarily coleopteran adults and larvae and lepidopteran larvae.
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On Cuba, three species of rodent and two species of nesophont primitive shrewlike insectivores unique to the Caribbean have disappeared.
The Song of The Dodo
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Offering seeds may attract lots of birds, but generally insectivores prefer suet (found at the meat counter at your grocery).
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Some mammal teeth from the Paleocene of France show characters of both bats and insectivores (the group including the hedgehogs, shrews and moles of today).
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The various species of rapacious animals are disappearing, together with the colonies of marmots; the insectivores are also becoming scarce in consequence of the destruction of insects, while vermin, such as the suslik (_Spermophilus_), become a real plague, as also the destructive insects which have been a scourge to agriculture during recent years.
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All moles are insectivores and all of them are great tunnelers.
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Insectivore molars from category 5 predator assemblages are even more dramatically digested.
