carnivorous mammals

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carnivorous
adjective
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/kɑːˈnɪv.ər.əs/us
/kɑːrˈnɪv.ɚ.əs/
relating to a person, animal, or other living thing that ...
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mammal
noun[C]
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/ˈmæm.əl/us
/ˈmæm.əl/
any animal of which the female feeds her young on milk from her own body. Most mammals give birth to live young, ...
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Several of the juvenile's bones are still articulated, indicating that thecarnivorousmammalswallowed its prey in large chunks.
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This species is one of the oldest carnivorous mammals that can be traced all the way to present day carnivorous mammals.
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Black-tailed jackrabbit is an important prey species for raptors and carnivorous mammals, such as eagles, hawks, owls, coyotes, foxes, and wild cats.
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They are prey species for various carnivorous mammals and birds of prey.
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Sometimes, other carnivorous mammals with elongated teeth are also called saber-toothed cats, although they do not belong to the felids.
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These were hooved, predominantly carnivorous mammals known only from fossils.
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Predators include snakes, owls, hawks, coyotes, and other carnivorous mammals.
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Although it was a herbivore (as indicated by its teeth), its skull had a bony ridge typically associated with carnivorous mammals.
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Predators include owls, hawks and carnivorous mammals, such as weasels and martens.
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Known predators include barn owls and great horned owls, and presumably also include hawks, snakes, and various carnivorous mammals.
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Definitive hosts are carnivorous mammals, notably mink, but also includes wolves, coyotes, foxes, dogs, raccoons, and weasels.
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Unique among carnivorous mammals, spotted hyenas are also born with their eyes open and with 67 mm long canine teeth and 4 mm long incisors.
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Predators include hawks, owls, snakes and small carnivorous mammals.
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Over the past 50 million years, successive clades of small and large carnivorous mammals diversified and then declined to extinction.
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Carnivorous mammals include the fox, badger, otter, weasel, stoat and elusive wildcat.
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Other generally carnivorous mammals include coyote, bobcat, weasel, marten, ferret and badger.
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When they were first identified in the 1920s, they were believed to be placentals and possible ancestors of the creodonts (extinct carnivorous mammals), but this was later disproven.
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A small colony of burrowing rodents can be found near the center of the island along with evidence of larger carnivorous mammals that may or may not reside there.
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Spotted hyena societies are more complex than those of other carnivorous mammals, and are remarkably similar to those of cercopithecine primates in respect to group size, structure, competition and cooperation.
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Fauna is represented by species of rodents (hamster and european ground squirrel), reptiles, carnivorous mammals (bear, gray wolf and fox) and other large mammals like wild boar and deer.
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