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"Carnivore" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... safe to infer (see p. 33), that it was predaceous, active and powerful, and adapted to terrestrial life. Its methods of attack and combat must have been more like those of modern reptiles than the more intelligent methods of the mammalian carnivore. The brain cast of Allosaurus indicates a brain of similar type and somewhat inferior grade to that of the modern crocodile or lizard, and far below the bird or mammal in intelligence. The keen sense of smell of the mammal, the keen vision of the bird, the highly developed reasoning power of both, ...
— Dinosaurs - With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections • William Diller Matthew
... to have come into existence during the Eocene period. On the other hand, the great order of the Beasts of Prey (Carnivora) is represented in Eocene strata by several forms belonging to different types. Thus the Ardocyon presents us with an Eocene Carnivore more or less closely allied to the existing Racoons; the Paloeonyctis appears to be related to the recent Civet-cats; the genus Hyoenodon is in some respects comparable to the living Hyaenas; and the Canis Parisiensis of the gypsum-bearing beds of Montmartre may perhaps be allied ...
— The Ancient Life History of the Earth • Henry Alleyne Nicholson |
Words linked to "Carnivore" : Carnivora, fissiped, order Carnivora, eutherian, mustelid, viverrine, young carnivore, feline, canid, fissiped mammal, felid, bear, predator, eutherian mammal, viverrine mammal, placental mammal, musteline, canine |
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