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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.
Rank Common name Scientific name Family Image Average mass (kg) Maximum mass (kg) Average length (m) Maximum length (m) Shoulder height (m) Native range
The largest specimen yet found is estimated to weigh up to 1,600 kg (3,500 lb) and stood up to 3.39 m (11 ft 1 in) tall on the hind-limbs [42] The largest living species of the family Felidae is the tiger (Panthera tigris), [26] with reports of males up to 388.7 and 465 kg (857 and 1,025 lb) in the wilderness and captivity, respectively.
Prothero suggests that animals as big as indricotheres would need very large home ranges or territories of at least 1,000 square kilometres (250,000 acres) and that, because of a scarcity of resources, there would have been little room in Asia for many populations or a multitude of nearly identical species and genera. This principle is called ...
The wolverine (/ ˈ w ʊ l v ə r iː n / WUUL-və-reen, US also / ˌ w ʊ l v ə ˈ r iː n / WUUL-və-REEN; [4] Gulo gulo), also called the carcajou or quickhatch (from East Cree, kwiihkwahaacheew), is the largest land-dwelling member of the family Mustelidae. It is a muscular carnivore and a solitary animal. [2]
The cheetah is active during the day, with peaks during dawn and dusk. It feeds on small- to medium-sized prey, mostly weighing under 40 kg (88 lb), and prefers medium-sized ungulates such as impala, springbok and Thomson's gazelles. The cheetah typically stalks its prey within 60–100 m (200–330 ft) before charging towards it, trips it ...
Studies of their morphological and genetic traits in 1999, 2003 and 2005 led all these island raccoons to be listed as subspecies of the common raccoon in Mammal Species of the World's third edition. A fifth island raccoon population, the Cozumel raccoon , which weighs only 3 to 4 kg (6.6 to 8.8 lb) and has notably small teeth, is still ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 February 2025. Miss Baker, a squirrel monkey, rode a Jupiter IRBM (scale model of rocket shown) into space in 1959. Landmarks for animals in space 1947: First animals in space (fruit flies) 1949: First primate and first mammal in space 1950: First mouse in space 1951: First dogs in space 1957: First ...