carnivore
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While the coyote’s expressive yellow eyes nearly make you sniffle, he remains a carnivore with sharp black claws.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Myerscough said that through contacting experts, they were able to establish that it was the lower jaw of a rhomaleosaurus, a carnivore also known as a sea dragon.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
He follows a carnivore diet, picks up snakes with his bare hands, and pushes videos of himself doing pushups shirtless and in jeans.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2026
"Ripple et al. argued that carnivore recovery produced one of the world's strongest trophic cascades," said Dr. Daniel MacNulty, lead author of the new analysis and a wildlife ecologist at Utah State University.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 14, 2026
As a result of this fundamental inefficiency, no mammalian carnivore has ever been domesticated for food.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Suraci stressed that large carnivores, like any species, have inherent value beyond the services they provide to human beings -- but said that failing to make the economic case would be a disservice to them.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
The single person, or the lone vegetarian in a house full of carnivores, might not eat a whole pot of soup in one sitting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Leopards are among the most widespread large carnivores in the world, found across Africa and parts of Asia.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026
These carnivores can go days, even weeks, without food.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
Gethenians are not a hunting people, because there is very little to hunt—no large herbivores, thus no large carnivores, except in the teeming seas.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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