Example Sentences

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These carnivores can go days, even weeks, without food.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

"There are a lot of people asking questions like, 'What are our ecological communities going to look like now that we have both of these large carnivores back on the landscape?'"

From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026

In many predator systems, smaller or less dominant carnivores face a tradeoff.

From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026

They often compensate villagers when carnivores kill their livestock or herbivores eat their crops.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Harry didn’t so much worry me, but what if the younger brothers discovered that Granddaddy was a trove of weird and fascinating facts about Indian fighting, the larger carnivores, hot-air ballooning?

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly