The sudden deaths to which great numbers of frugivorous birds are annually exposed must not be omitted as auxiliary to the transportation of seeds to new habitations.
Its degree of adaptation to a frugivorous diet is more than in the procyonid genus Nasua but less than in the procyonid genus Bassaricyon.
Indeed, no other canid that we know of has teeth so much adapted to a frugivorous diet as are those of C.
This quantity of fat in frugivorous animals, not exposed to the light, and exerting very little muscular motion, reminds us of what has been long since observed in the fattening of geese and oxen.
Our frugivorous and baccivorous genera are also pretty numerous, and most of them are so fond of insect food that they unite, as occasion offers, with the insectivorous tribes.
It is almost the only frugivorous nocturnal bird that is yet known; the conformation of its feet sufficiently shows that it does not hunt like our owls.
But when, through the perversions of civilized life, frugivorous man is forced to eat as fast as the carnivores, he instinctively adopts a similar diet.
Frugivorous animals, to which class the human race properly belongs, eat slowly.
Insectivorous bats are numerous, but the frugivorous division of this order is only represented by a single species in Japan.
Both the insectivorous and frugivorous divisions of the bats are well represented.
In many frugivorous animals, the canine teeth are more pointed and distinct than those of man.
It is also worthy of mention that the existence of primitive man as a savage hunter is, in another point of view, absolutely opposed to the Darwinian idea of his origin from a frugivorous ape.
Comparative anatomy teaches us that man resembles frugivorous animals in everything, and carnivorous in nothing: he has neither claws wherewith to seize his prey, nor distinct and pointed teeth to tear the living fibre.
These are frugivorous bats of large size, differing, as remarked by Jerdon, so much in their dentition from the insectivorous species that they seem to lead through the flying Lemurs (Colugos) directly to the Quadrumana.
Cuvier places them after the Bats, but they seem properly to link the Lemurs and the frugivorous Bats.
This bat is found all over India; it is frugivorous exclusively, though some of this sub-order are insectivorous.
We have much to learn as to these matters; but we must, if we have any regard to physiology and to natural probability, start from the idea that the most primitive men were frugivorous and fitted for a mild climate.
Should these be found, we may anticipate that their characters would be peculiar, and would indicate a frugivorous rather than a carnivorous mode of life, and less of rude power than that evidenced by the Canstadt and Cro-magnon races.
In the Frugivorous bats the second digit is clawed as well as the pollex, in other bats this claw is always absent, and so is often the ungual phalanx, the middle phalanx then tapering gradually to its termination.
In the Frugivorousbats the molar teeth have nearly always smooth crowns.
In the frugivorous Flying Foxes (Pteropidae) the skull is elongated, and the cranial cavity is large and arched, though considerably contracted in front.
A third necessity was very probably the exchange of the frugivorous for the carnivorous habit, which would act as a predisposing agency in inducing the animal to desert the tree for the ground, and to employ weapons in the chase.
The frugivorous and herbivorous animals do not need cunning and shrewdness to anything like the extent necessary in carnivorous animals.
The apes arefrugivorous animals, though not exclusively so.
The bats--especially the large frugivorous bats--have a very unpleasant, frowsy smell.
Cooked meat is not the food of a carnivor, but is an adaptation of the flesh of animals to the requirements of a frugivorous animal.
So far is this from being the case that the great naturalists, from Linnæus onward, give implicit judgment to the contrary, by classing mankind with the frugivorous family of the anthropoid apes.
Possibly, he may originally have been more gregarious than any extant anthropoid, in spite of his not needing society for defence, and of its seeming to be for so large a frugivorous animal inconvenient in relation to nutrition.
In the old frugivorous forest life, the custom was to get up into some tree for the night, and within a short radius there were hundreds equally suitable; and, therefore, there was nothing to check the natural preference for a fresh one.
It is most unlikely that a cousin of the frugivorous anthropoids should entirely give up his ancestral food, immediately, or perhaps at any time.
But into his life a disturbing factor enteredaEuro"the impulse to attack, hunt and eat animals, which extensively replaced his former peaceable, frugivorous habit.
That the change from a frugivorous to a carnivorous diet may itself have had some effect upon our temperament and activity is possible; but I lay no stress upon that.
There may be a correlation between large caecae and more insectivorous diet and small caecae and frugivorous diet; however, the data are not conclusive in this regard.
This is correlated with a short intestinal tract, which is unusual for a frugivorous bird.
Members of the subfamily Ptilogonatinae are both insectivorous and frugivorous insofar as available data show, although again there is relatively little information available concerning them.
This is notable, since these are frugivorous birds, and in many frugivorous birds, the tract is lengthened for better extraction of edible portions of the food.
The entire skull appears to be modified along different lines from those of the skull of Dulus; the skull of Phainoptila seems to be modified for a frugivorous rather than an insectivorous diet.
The members of this sub-order are mostly insectivorous though occasionally "frugivorous or sanguivorous" Bats.
Their diet is essentially a frugivorous one; yet they will occasionally indulge in a lizard or two, or any other reptile.
Including the frugivorous section about sixteen species have been identified in Ceylon; and remarkable varieties of two of these are peculiar to the island.
I doubt whether this conjecture be well founded; it certainly does not apply to the Pteropus and the other frugivorous species, in which the faculty of sight is singularly clear.
Comparative anatomy teaches us that man resembles frugivorous animals in everything, and carnivorous in nothing; he has neither claws wherewith to seize his prey, nor distinct and pointed teeth to tear the living fibre.
In frugivorousbats the ear is simple and but slightly variable.
Its small size in the frugivorous and blood-sucking species, which do not require it, is easily understood.
The first digit terminates in a claw, most developed in the frugivorous species, in most of which the second digit is also clawed, although in other bats this and the remaining digits are unarmed.
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