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  2. Okapi - Wikipedia

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    Male okapi displaying his striking horizontal stripes. The okapi is a medium-sized giraffid, standing 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) tall at the shoulder. Its average body length is about 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) and its weight ranges from 200 to 350 kg (440 to 770 lb). [23] It has a long neck, and large and flexible ears.

  3. List of carnivorans - Wikipedia

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    Various carnivorans, with feliforms to the left, and caniforms to the right. Carnivora is an order of placental mammals that have specialized in primarily eating flesh. Members of this order are called carnivorans, or colloquially carnivores, though the term more properly refers to any meat-eating organisms, and some carnivoran species are omnivores or herbivores.

  4. Carnivore - Wikipedia

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    Lions are obligate carnivores consuming only animal flesh for their nutritional requirements.. A carnivore / ˈ k ɑːr n ɪ v ɔːr /, or meat-eater (Latin, caro, genitive carnis, meaning meat or "flesh" and vorare meaning "to devour"), is an animal or plant whose nutrition and energy requirements are met by consumption of animal tissues (mainly muscle, fat and other soft tissues) as food ...

  5. Generalist and specialist species - Wikipedia

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    A well-known example of a specialist animal is the monophagous koala, which subsists almost entirely on eucalyptus leaves. The raccoon is a generalist, because it has a natural range that includes most of North and Central America, and it is omnivorous, eating berries, insects such as butterflies, eggs, and various small animals.

  6. The 10 best meats and the 10 worst ones - AOL

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    Have no fear meat-eaters, we've gathered the best and worst meats you can find so you'll be better prepared for dinner. Check out the slideshow above for the 10 best and worst meats to eat. More food:

  7. Molluscivore - Wikipedia

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    A molluscivore is a carnivorous animal that specialises in feeding on molluscs such as gastropods, bivalves, brachiopods and cephalopods.Known molluscivores include numerous predatory (and often cannibalistic) molluscs, (e.g.octopuses, murexes, decollate snails and oyster drills), arthropods such as crabs and firefly larvae, and, vertebrates such as fish, birds and mammals. [1]

  8. Okapi (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    An okapi is a giraffid artiodactyl mammal native to the Ituri Rainforest in central Africa. Okapi may also refer to: De Havilland Okapi, a British two-seat day bomber of the 1910s built by de Havilland; Okapi (knife), a lockback or slipjoint knife originally produced in 1902 for export to Germany's colonies in Africa

  9. South American tapir - Wikipedia

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    The dwindling numbers of the South American tapir are due to poaching for meat and hide, as well as habitat destruction. T. terrestris is generally recognized as an endangered animal species, with the species being designated as endangered by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service on June 2, 1970. [ 21 ]