Word: carnivora
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Giant pandas are peculiar bears, members of the order Carnivora. Conventional bears are the most omnivorous representatives of their order, but pandas have restricted this catholicity of taste in the other direction--they belie the name of their order by subsisting almost entirely on bamboo. They live in dense forests of bamboo at high elevations in the mountains of western China. There they sit, largely unthreatened by predators, munching bamboo ten to twelve hours each...
Trouble comes when a young Masai warrior takes a fancy to Patricia. This nymphet of the Carnivora is delighted. As she well knows, a tradition of the Masai once held that a tribesman could not take a wife until he killed a lion, and Patricia eggs him on to fight King for her. The lion duly eviscerates the tribesman, but just as he is about to dispatch him, up runs the warden. Which to shoot? He hesitates for several paragraphs between his pledge to protect all animals and "an instinctive feeling of solidarity with [the man] rooted in the first...
Some of the small carnivora feed near the surface at night and retire during the daytime to a lower level where they can be spotted by echo-sounding devices. Dr. Weiss believes that special vessels could drop flexible hoses into these living strata and suck up enormous quantities of edible zooplankton...
...Australia to themselves, and, protected from the competition of the fiercer placental mammals, they evolved in many directions and duplicated almost every type that the placentals produced in other parts of the world. Besides the familiar kangaroos (equivalent in habits to deer or antelopes), there are still pouched carnivora and pouched marsupial moles...
...bones were hidden was a lake shore then, swarming with large and dangerous animals. Among them slunk the weak humanoids, armed with the first of the weapons that man had created. Perhaps they killed a few of the animals. Perhaps, like hyenas, they scavenged the kills of the powerful carnivora, using their fist-axes to crack the bones for the marrow inside...