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These changes are reflected in the progress of marine life, though their influence is probably less than that of the great carnivorous monsters which now fill the waters.
The dog is by nature a carnivorous animal, and wholesome flesh, either cooked or raw, should be his staple food.
As an example, consider the conflict between our carnivorous appetites and hunting instincts and the sympathy with animals which our refinement is bringing in its train.
And this is not merely the resemblance of one carnivorous animal to another; for no one was ever reminded of a dog or wolf by a lion.
"How sad, for the sake of an old-time piece of literature," he said, "that the fox is a carnivorous animal and doesn't care particularly about fruit!"
The notes of one, which was shown to us in a cage, sounded sweetly; but, as he was carnivorous, the weather was too hot for us to think of taking him away.
The only carnivorous beasts on the desert are wolves, but as game is abundant, and can be caught with ordinary exertion, they have no occasion to feed upon men.
Its teeth prove it to have been carnivorous in its habits, and it probably lived upon fishes.
In this remarkable form we are presented with perhaps the most highly carnivorous type of all known beasts of prey.
Till quite recently this comprised its whole diet, but since the country it inhabits has become occupied by Europeans it has developed a taste for a carnivorous diet, with alarming results.
The sight of meat causes the saliva to run from the mouths of the carnivorous animals at the Zoo.
Articles of food were completely destroyed by these carnivorous creatures, within a few minutes after I had placed them on the table.
Many birds and animals, especially the carnivorous, have only one mate, and the love and care of offspring which seems to be natural is inconsistent with the primitive theory of marriage.
It may also be remembered that this carnivorous beast, which was supposed to carry its young in the mouth and give birth to them through the ear, is numbered among the unclean animals in the Bible.
The savage is naturally carnivorous and before the advent of the white man, had little to eat but animal flesh.
These carnivorous creatures are yelling aloud, and these animals are uttering fearful cries.
The carnivorous plants growing at their center were often like hollow trees, and might easily have received the three travelers in one embrace.
When their powers of life begin to fade, they fall an easy prey to the small, carnivorous animals of the plains.
Not being by nature carnivorous, the elephants are not fierce, and seldom attack a man but when fired at or otherwise provoked.
Nevertheless, Jack worked away in his usual carnivorous style, and finished by paying his respects to all the sweets, jellies, and things in succession.
In order that the teeth of a carnivorous animal may be able to cut the flesh, they require to be sharp, more or less so in proportion to the greater or less quantity of flesh that they have to cut.
It is probable that this deadly aversion of the female for the male at the end of the mating season is fairly common, especially among the carnivorous insects.
They would most likely be insects, and there would be carnivorous other insects to prey upon them.
The fat woman watched me like a cat, and I fancied that her mouth was like that of a carnivorous beast.
The scent of the blood would attract the carnivorous creatures, so he stripped off the bloody jungle suit, dropping it back in the thicket, and hurried away.
The bears although some of them are much larger, are not generally carnivorous, except for the polar bear, which is partly aquatic, preying chiefly upon seals and fish.
Carnivorous animals of your size are always destroyed, as being of savage and dangerous nature.
Baldwin, in his 'Large and Small Game of Bengal,' puts this bear down as not only carnivorous, but a foul feeder.
Although carnivorous by nature, the little pests seem to have a great liking for sweet corn when in the milk.
They had, of course, longer and narrower jaws than we have, and definitely carnivorous teeth.
Let us hope we shall recover the continuation of the narrative and learn what became of this carnivorous monster.
Accidents necessarily must happen, but they are not so frequent as persons would suppose from the great number of carnivorous monsters that exist.
The blow fell on his neck and his carnivorous grin smoothed out as if sleep had suddenly fallen upon him.
Across desert tracts, exposed not only to terrible fatigue, but to hunger, thirst, and fierce carnivorous animals.
I think it very probable that the fire ran over an extent of five hundred miles; and my reason for so estimating it is, the exhausted state of the carnivorous animals.
It is strange what a distance the smell of burned bones and scraps will be carried to the noses of carnivorous beasts.
So, in a carnivorous animal, the least deficiency of vigor prevents its capturing food, and it soon dies of starvation.
I constantly imagined I saw the carnivorous birds flying through the air, with pieces of the flesh of my unfortunate companion in their bills.
The body he left behind as worthless, as it is never eaten by the Indians, although they are fond of the wild cat, and some other carnivorous animals.
Carnivorous animals, in like manner, have had their organs modified in correlation with their desires and habits.
We say living flesh, for on capturing prey he does not wait to kill it, as most carnivorous animals, but tears and destroys it while still screaming.
"I can never understand the interest people take in seeing the carnivorous animals fed; it is no more than giving a bone to a dog," he said, as he took his seat.
At present, perhaps, no one here except myself could swim in the midst of those carnivorous creatures without the danger of certain death.
You'll envy a messenger boy with a job and a future; you'll wonder if managers are really carnivorous or only pretend to be.
The flexibility of mind is a concomitant of the carnivorous habit where creatures obtain their prey by the chase.
Some years ago I experimented with various sorts of carnivorous animals for the purpose of ascertaining whether nuts could be made a complete substitute for meat.
Men, and all carnivorous animals, can not live except on the condition of sacrificing other creatures.
The cat, having changed less than the dog, will furnish the child with a good type of carnivorous animals that lead a solitary life.
His teeth are not, and never were, from his earliest ape-like days, adapted to true carnivorous diet.
I'm not a vegetarian, but a carnivorous animal; I drink when I'm thirsty, and I decidedly prefer my beverages to be alcoholic.'
Could his Satanic Majesty have devised any better plan for destroying the moral distinction between men and carnivorous beasts?
Like most of his kind, he is also carnivorous, and will dine off the carcass of a horse or buffalo.
He says that they are exceedingly fierce and carnivorous, and that the Arabs believe they can lift stones in their paws and fling them at those who may be in pursuit of them!
It is but natural to suppose that the younger bears would not be so carnivorous as those of greater age.
It is evident that many of them might readily become carnivorous to a large extent under suitable conditions.
To these may be added the carnivorous tastes shown by many members of the ape family, with the indication that more decided carnivorous habits might readily be assumed.
Scratches from carnivorous animals are very dangerous on account of the poison that may cling to their claws.
Among the carnivorous animals the teeth, which were developed first chiefly for the tearing of flesh in its consumption, became effective for their courageous owners.
The little bands of early horses, pursued by their carnivorous foes, were slowly modified into swifter creatures.
This plant lamb was reported to have bones, blood, and delicate flesh, and to be a favorite food of wolves, though no other carnivorous animal would attack it.
Several hundred carnivorous plants in all parts of the world have now been named by scientists.
When certain plants live in soil that is so poor in nitrogen compounds that protein formation is interfered with, they have come to depend more or less on a carnivorous diet.
This order is called "Carnivora," because it is made up of carnivorous or flesh-eating beasts.
Four out of thirty-two teeth were found to resemble slightly, the teeth of carnivorous animals.
He found that countryside wonderfully full of different forms of wild life, and wonderfully interesting to a born hunter and carnivorous creature like himself.
When she laughs, it is with a large display of the solid white teeth of a carnivorous animal; when she weeps, it is with the deep sobs of a beaten child.
She certainly devoured half of it, tearing it to pieces with the rapid movements of her jaws like some carnivorous animal.
No longer could we perch on a branch and laugh down at our carnivorous enemies on the ground.
We ate when we were hungry, drank when we were thirsty, avoided our carnivorous enemies, took shelter in the caves at night, and for the rest just sort of played along through life.
The dog, in a state of nature, being carnivorous, and obliged to hunt for its food, in all probability would not feed every day; certainly it would seldom make more than one meal in twenty-four hours.
It would be too much to say such a form of disease does not exist in a carnivorous animal; but I have hitherto not met with it.
Carnivorous plants, undoubtedly, these awful half-animal, half-vegetable things whose seed had been transported across a quarter million miles of space.
The carnivorous creatures are not mentioned, and possibly were not included in man's dominion.
It was further reported that the lamb was a favorite food of wolves, but that no other carnivorous animals would attack it.
There would be strongly pronounced differences between the carnivorous animals and those which form their natural prey.
They have many enemies, being preyed upon by all the carnivorous animals, also by such birds as the hawk and owl, but as they are exceedingly prolific their numbers increase rapidly.
They are strictly carnivorous and are beyond all doubt the most destructive of all wild animals.
It is useless, of course, to make the attempt with pure honey: no carnivorous creature would touch it, though it were starving.
If I were a believer in evolution, I should say yes, by the fact of its germ, every animal is originally carnivorous.
Wolves, tigers, and other carnivorous animals, invited by the howling of their companions, flocked together from every quarter.
In as much therefore as these are found to be carnivorous, the question is decided with respect to ourselves.
The teeth of the more perfect carnivorous animals are adapted for seizing and tearing their prey, while those which feed on vegetables have cutting and grinding teeth, but not the canine.
We have endeavored to show that even the existence of carnivorous races is a benevolent provision.
Similar reasoning will, I think, apply to the existence of that large class of animals called carnivorous.
Indeed, I had forgotten for the moment that other animals are also killed to feed carnivorous man.
The bare idea of this is no doubt horribly repulsive to us, but at the same time I think that we should remember how repulsive our carnivorous habits would seem to an intelligent rabbit.
Yes, the horn winds far and sweet in story and song, until it becomes the horn of elf-land faintly blowing, and man is a carnivorous animal who feeds on flesh.
Is the carnivorous formation of man a reason that boys should stone birds or men shoot deer, that we should bait dogs and fight cocks and kill scared pigeons, not for food, but for fun?
There were also in the Coal-period insects allied to the Locusts and to the Mantids, a carnivorous group.
Others were carnivorous and of terrible energy, while furnished with the most destructive weapons.
What I most feared in these dim recesses, was some carnivorous animal, for whose residence it appeared to be well adapted.
Man, according to us, in living on flesh, is justified by nature herself, who made him a carnivorous creature.
For the same reason the intestines of the carnivorous are short, the blood to be formed being already present there.
The pigs had been turned loose, I supposed, to get their own living as best they could; and I am afraid that a good many of them were carnivorous, as the dogs certainly were.
They are carnivorous, that is, they feed on animal matter, and most of them have strong teeth.
Instead of offering sacrifice from purely religious motives, it is now made for the gratification of carnivorous appetite.
They, therefore, employed their own individual butchers; but, with rare wisdom, they chose some carnivorous animal to supply their table.
This taste leads him much to the neighborhood of houses and other places where he can indulge his carnivorous propensities.
I listened solemnly while Doctor Kellogg read off the numbers of billions of bacteria per gram in the contents of the colon of a carnivorous person.
To be sure, the carnivorous animals bolt their food, but they are tougher than we are, and do not carry the burden of a large brain and a complex nervous system.