The carnivora prey on the herbivora and upon each other; and the herbivora crush each other by methods that are as effective as the method of direct attack.
The worms of theherbivora have particular characters by which they are easily known; they have no crown of hooks.
All the herbivora are in a similar case; the ox and the sheep possess a peculiar taenia of their own, besides those which they lodge for the sake of the 207 carnivora.
The tape-worms of the herbivoralay eggs like the others, but their embryos have, as soon as they are hatched, a ciliary covering which allows them to live and 205 move about in the water.
The mouse is destined to the cat, and the rabbit to the dog; in the same manner, each one of the herbivora is intended to be the prey of a carnivorous animal, if not larger and stronger than itself, at least more cunning.
This is especially the case in herbivora and omnivora, whose food is bulky, containing a large amount of refuse material, and is hence only slowly digested.
Hence the large intestine ofherbivora and omnivora is uniformly longer in proportion to the small intestine than it is in carnivorous animals.
Since the main function of the pancreatic juice is the conversion of starch into sugar, the gland appears better developed in general in herbivora than in carnivora, without, however, disappearing in the latter.
Hence the villi of the small intestine are especially large and prominent in the carnivora, while they are small and insignificant in herbivora and omnivora.
The same general principle enables us to understand the singular, and often conspicuous, markings on so many gregarious herbivora which are yet, on the whole, protectively coloured.
In another line of development, the herbivora have been specialised for living solely on vegetable food till they have culminated in the sheep, the cattle, the deer, and the antelopes.
The bones of the herbivorawere the most numerous, and all those on the outside of the grotto which had contained marrow were invariably split open, as if for its extraction, many of them being also burnt.
In Herbivora and Omnivora a paroxysm is usually induced by the sight of a dog--a fact of importance in diagnosis.
This seemed all the more plausible as the herbivora readily accumulated fat, although their diet might contain this element in very small quantities.
Others, however, can be produced in their typical character in animals, as diphtheria, and others still originate in animals and are transmitted from them to man, as anthrax or splenic fever of the herbivora and hydrophobia.
The saliva of rabid Herbivora and Omnivora, long held to be harmless, is now known to be virulent.
The most dangerous, and almost the only enemy which man and the herbivora have reason to dread, is the Wolf.
His favourite haunts are the banks of rivers and lakes, not only because he may there pounce upon the herbivora which come to drink, but because he can there satisfy himself with a banquet of fish.
However, a few Herbivoraexcel in these perilous exercises.
Between man and the carnivora it was natural that a deadly war should be incessantly waged; but humanity would seem to dictate towards the inoffensive herbivora a less sanguinary hostility.
During the day he lurks in the thickets and among the tall grasses, but when the shades of night descend he issues from his lair, and haunts the brooks and pools whither the herbivora resort to quench their thirst.
Next to man, the most dangerous enemies of the peaceful herbivora are the great Carnivora of the Felidae genus, in whose first rank zoologists and poets were formerly wont to place the lion.
Where the surface of the ground is smooth and bare, the herbivora can descry an approaching enemy, and take to flight or make ready for defence.
The herbivora possess capacious stomachs and the intestines are very long.
The cost of feeding one of the herbivora is much less than that of one of the carnivora of the same weight.
In the herbivora the nitrogenous waste takes the form of another body called hippuric acid.
Of course, the sodium chloride in the flesh of the herbivora and frugivora is obtained from the vegetable matter forming their food, and very few of them have the opportunity of obtaining it from salt-licks and mineral sources.
In their food, the herbivora take three or four times as much potash salts as the carnivora.
The monkeys, apes, and man (comprised in the order Primates) have a digestive canal intermediate in complexity and in length to the herbivora and carnivora.
The grass and herbs on which the herbivora subsist, seems to our imagination of little flavour and monotonous; but they eat with every sign of enjoyment, deliberately munching their food as though to get its full flavour.
The carnivora with their short intestinal canal need the least, the frugivora more, and the herbivora a much larger quantity.
Thus the so-called protective colouring of herbivora cannot afford them much protection.
But these herbivora exceeding all law and all reason, the insectivorous insects were created to confine them within limits.
And God said, Let us make man in our own image, after our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, and over the herbivora and over all the land.
As the mammalian age draws to a close, the ancient carnivora and herbivora of that era all pass away, excepting, it is believed, a few that are useful to man.
At the same time there need be no objection to the view that the especial capacity of ruminants and other herbivora for domestication is connected with the use of the word in this place.
Then the carnivora appear in vast numbers and power, and the herbivora also abound.
The bearing of this with relation to the detection of arsenic in the stomachs of the herbivora needs no comment.
The fluids used for this purpose are the blood of the herbivora diluted with common salt solution, or a serum albumin solution, or a 2 per cent.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "herbivora" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
