He can not compete with carnivores in strength and ferocity, nor with herbivores in fleetness.
The free condition of the limb is evidently the original one, the condition in herbivores being an extreme modification associated with another modification mentioned under 5.
The one we find in carnivorous or clawed digitigrades, the other in herbivores or hoofed digitigrades.
From this common stock the two orders have gradually separated, the carnivores becoming more and more adapted to one mode of life and the herbivores to another, by a process following the laws of evolution, as already explained.
Herbivores starve, and then the carnivores that feed on the herbivores starve.
The large modern carnivora prey upon herbivores of medium or smaller size, which they are active enough to surprise or run down.
Carnivora of much larger size would be too slow and heavy in movements to catch small prey, while the larger herbivores by intelligent use of their defensive weapons could still fend them off successfully.
To these primitive prairies the mammal (not reptile) herbivores would be attracted, with important results.
And God made all Carnivores after their kind, And all Herbivores after their kind, And all minor mammals after their kind.
And God said--"Let the Land bring forth living things after their kind, Herbivores and smaller mammals and Carnivores after their kind.
The starving herbivores that find themselves from time to time belated on the confines of such thirsty regions would seize with avidity upon any succulent plant which offered them food and drink at once in their last extremity.
Large herbivores were introduced to supply meat for island residents (e.
Herbivores are of both domestic and wild stocks of ungulates, hares, and rabbits.
So long as the heavy herbivores were the most numerous these fighting carnivores were dominant over their sly, swift, slinking brethren.
By rugged strength and by the development of its terrible stabbing and cutting dagger teeth, that is, by sheer fighting ability, it was fitted for attack upon and battle with the massive herbivores then so plentiful.
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