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"Carnivora" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... proportion to the usual order of Nature. But this is perhaps because the minute, almost invisible creatures, or entomostraca, of which the rivers and ponds are full, and which are the main food of the smaller water carnivora, live mainly on decaying vegetable substance, which is practically converted and condensed into microscopical animals before these become in turn the food of others. It is as if all trees and grass on land were first eaten by locusts or white ants, and the locusts and white ants were then ...
— The Naturalist on the Thames • C. J. Cornish
... saved us much ammunition, which it is useless to expend except for food or in the last recourse of self-preservation. Now when we are attacked by large flying reptiles we run beneath spreading trees; when land carnivora threaten us, we climb into trees, and we have learned not to fire at any of the dinosaurs unless we can keep out of their reach for at least two minutes after hitting them in the brain or spine, or five minutes after puncturing their hearts—it takes ...
— The Land That Time Forgot • Edgar Rice Burroughs |
Words linked to "Carnivora" : family Procyonidae, family Felidae, family Viverridae, subclass Eutheria, Procyonidae, animal order, family Mustelidae, Viverrinae, Mustelidae, order Carnivora, suborder Pinnipedia, Eutheria, Felidae, Canidae, family Viverrinae, Viverridae, Ursidae, family Canidae, family Hyaenidae, Hyaenidae, family Ursidae, Pinnipedia, carnivore |
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