A
carnivore (KAR-nih-vohr) meaning "meat eater" (Latin carn = flesh + vorare = to devour) is an
animal that eats a diet consisting solely of meat, whether it comes from live
animals or dead (scavenging).
Full article >>>Carnivores are
animals that eat a diet consisting mostly of meat.
Also, the word could refer to the
mammals of the
Order Carnivora, many (but not all) of which fit the first definition.
Full article >>>Carnivore An
organism that captures and consumes
animalsCatadromous fish.. Fish that spawns in seawater but feed and spends most of its life in estuarine or fresh water
Chaetognaths. See Arrowworms ...
Full article >>>carnivore -- Literally, an
organism that eats meat. Most
carnivores are
animals, but a few
fungi,
plants, and
protists are as well.
carpel -- A unit of the
pistil; it is
evolutionarily a modified
leaf.
Full article >>>carnivores Term applied to a
heterotroph, usually an
animal, that eats other
animals.
Carnivores function as secondary, tertiary, or top
consumers in
food chains and
food webs.
Full article >>>Carnivores at the ends of
long food chains (e.g., ospreys, pelicans, falcons, and eagles) once suffered serious declines in
fecundity and hence in
population size because of this.
Full article >>>carnivore[L. caro, carnis, flesh + voro, to devour]
An
animal, such as a shark, hawk, or spider, that eats other
animals.
Full article >>>carnivores:
animals that eat other
animals.
carrying capacity: a situation when a
population has reached the maximum size that the
environment can support.
catabolism: the breakdown or
digestion of large, complex
molecules.
Full article >>>carnivore One of the flesh-eating
mammals of the
order Carnivora. Also, any
organism that eats
animals. Adj., carnivorous.
carotene A red, orange, or yellow
pigment belonging to the group of carotenoids; precursor of
vitamin A.
Full article >>>Cynognathus (a doglike
carnivore) shows a further increase in size of the dentary bone. The other three bones are located inside the back portion of the jaw. Some teeth are multicusped and the teeth fit together tightly.
Full article >>>The most significant relation is the relation of
predation (to eat or to be eaten), which leads to the essential concepts in
ecology of
food chains (for example, the grass is consumed by the
herbivore, itself consumed by a
carnivore, ...
Full article >>>And normally we will sort it by major types, major functions, such as
biomass of
plants or
biomass of
herbivores or
biomass of
carnivores. And when I'm saying
biomass, I mainly mean
biomass of
plants, which is what we focus most of our work on.
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