Sentences with phrase «carnivorous mammals»
"Carnivorous mammals" refers to animals that primarily eat meat or other animals as their main source of food. Full definition
Their extensive quarrying generated 56 cases of spectacular fossils «representing three species of three - toed horses, rhinoceroses... many species of antelope and gazelle... birds, and a variety of carnivorous mammals.»
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Looking beyond people, intermittent fasting is frequently reflected in nature, as carnivorous mammals often hunt and consume a large amount of food at once to sustain them for a while, compared with foragers who snack constantly.
California ground squirrels have it rough, facing carnivorous mammals on the ground and dodging raptors diving from the sky.
What All Mustelids Have In Common All mustelids are warm - blooded, carnivorous mammals with long, tubular bodies, short legs and thick necks.
One of the authors is conservationist Ronaldo Gonçalves Morato, head of the National Center for Carnivorous Mammal Research & Conservation (CENAP), a unit of the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio) located in Atibaia, São Paulo State.
Additional findings from Monell revealed that other exclusively carnivorous mammals, including sea lions and spotted hyenas, also have lost the ability to detect sweet taste.
Since 1994, more than 400 new species have been discovered onthe island, including the world's largest cockroach, a snake thatchanges colors like a chameleon, a catlike carnivorous mammal, and apygmy elephant.
This bundle contains 14 ready - to - use Lion Worksheets that are perfect for students who want to learn more about Lions which are large carnivorous mammals that belong to the family of felines.
Still, cats ate rodents three times more often than other small, carnivorous mammals known as dasyurids (like dunnarts for example).
All we know for sure is that the fossa and the other nine carnivorous mammals on Madagascar are closely related, and probably descend from a single African ancestor.
All mustelids are warm - blooded, carnivorous mammals with long, tubular bodies, short legs and thick necks.
In 2008, Fornaciari analyzed carbon and nitrogen ratios in bone collagen from other princes of Naples and the Medici of Florence, and found that they had as much nitrogen in their diet as carnivorous mammals.
But a vacuum was waiting to be filled, and 10 million years later Pakicetus, a carnivorous mammal that looked a bit like a wolf, took a tentative dip in the water.
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The domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus or Felis catus) is a small, typically furry, carnivorous mammal.
As the human population increased, however, numbers of the wolves» natural prey decreased, and many people became convinced that their livestock was in danger from the carnivorous mammals.
Some carnivorous mammals eat vegetation specifically as an emetic or substance that causes vomiting.
Dogs are carnivorous mammals of the family Canidae that are often bred and kept as house pets.