The intestines are also identical with those of herbivorous animals, which present a larger surface for absorption and have ample and cellulated colons.
There is no exception, unless man be one, to the rule ofherbivorous animals having cellulated colons.
With the carnivora the sense of taste becomes an eager, sanguinary appetite, while the herbivorous animals require a delicacy of taste to enable them to distinguish the nourishing plant from that which would poison them.
An American herbivorous dinosaur of great size, allied to the iguanodon.
How does this ratio compare with that of anherbivorous animal?
This color is characteristic of carnivorous animals; in herbivorous forms it is yellow.
Acts of this kind are more often seen in humming-birds than in birds of other families; and humming-birds do not appear to discriminate between rapacious and herbivorous mammals.
The Palæotherium, Anoplotherium, and Xiphodon were herbivorous animals, which must have lived in great herds.
Secure from the attacks of other animals, this robust herbivorous creature, of which Figure 188 is a restoration, must have lived peacefully and respected in the solitary pampas of America.
They do not bear any resemblance to those of the carnivora, but are like those of herbivorous animals, and particularly those of the Hippopotamus.
The larger herbivorous animals are confined to a foliaceous or farinaceous diet.
May not these herbivorous larvae have been the principal cause of the mischief to the wheat, while those of the Zabrus contributed rather to lessen their numbers than to destroy the corn.
Thespesius, a Common Herbivorous Dinosaur of the Cretaceous From a drawing by Charles R.
Similarly in the case of the teeth, insectivorous and omnivorous types appear to be more central and ancient than either the exclusively carnivorous or herbivorous types.
Gophers are purely herbivorous and I thought they should be quite edible, but as I am a strict vegetarian myself, I had to depend on them to make this experiment.
Chapter 11 PESTS AND PETS The pocket gopher is an herbivorous animal which attains approximately the size of a gray squirrel.
It is also found in the urine of infants and herbivorous animals.
A reddish yellow pigment present in human bile, and in that from carnivorous and herbivorous animals; the normal biliary pigment.
A division of the herbivorous mammals including the hogs and hippopotami; -- so called because the teeth are tuberculated.
The pneumatic skeleton, however, appears to be absent from the herbivorous types like Iguanodon and all Dinosaurs which have the Bird-like form of pelvis, and are most Bird-like in the forms of bones of the hind limb.
Nothing is more remarkable than the result of habits in the herbivorous mammals.
The urine of man, of carnivorous and graminivorous animals, contains alkaline phosphates; that of herbivorous animals is free from these salts.
Representation of some large herbivorous Animal on a Fragment of Reindeer's Horn.
In this bed, situated in front of the cavern an immense number of the most interesting relics were discovered--a large number of the teeth and broken bones of herbivorousanimals (fig.
Representation of some large Herbivorous Animal on a Fragment of Reindeer's Horn ib.
An indistinct trace of horns seems to indicate a herbivorous animal.
The ossiferous mound situated immediately above the fire-hearth contained, like the subjacent ashes, a large number of the bones of certain herbivorous animals.
But although this latter case is a manifest prediction, it does not really differ from the former one; for the proof that camels are herbivorous has no limits in time.
The truly carnivorous animalcules, or those truly herbivorous in their instincts, we may presume to be beyond the limits of our enquiry.
As an essential ingredient in the provender of herbivorous animals, it may, I think, be admitted as a fact, that its importance is in an inverse ratio with the nutritive powers of the food.
Bitterness is essentially necessary in the food of all herbivorous animals; without it, indeed, they sooner or later fall into ill health.
This is largely urea in mammals, with much hippuric acid in herbivorous animals and uric acid in birds and reptiles.
The building up of protein from these mineral salts by bacteria in the intestines of herbivorous animals has been suggested by Armsby as a considerable source of nitrogenous food, and this suggestion appears possible.
Certain of the intestinal bacteria in man and especially in herbivorous animals are undoubted symbionts, as are also the "root-tubercle bacteria" already mentioned.
Man was to rule over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and the bhemah orherbivorous animals.
Large and powerful herbivorous species first take possession of the earth, with only a few small carnivora.
He opposes to the meaning of "herbivorous animals" which I have sought to establish, two exceptional passages.
For example, in the Mesozoic epoch the lacertian reptiles presented huge elephantine carnivorous and herbivorous species--the Megalosaurus, Iguanodon, etc.
And God made carnivorous mammals after their kinds, and herbivorous mammals after their kinds, and every reptile of the land after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
Animals, except those which are herbivorous, prey upon one another; and the herbivorous are exposed to the attacks of the flesh-eating races.
Some herbivorous animals, especially among the ruminants, have been incessantly preyed upon by carnivorous animals, against which their only refuge is in flight.
It appears that they have often been worn by the process of mastication; whereas the existing herbivorous reptiles clip and gnaw off the vegetable productions on which they feed, but do not chew them.
The intestines were large, as in otherherbivorous animals.
The iguanodon was an herbivorousterrestrial reptile that formerly inhabited England.
The carnivorous species, especially, were intended to act as nature's police, to prevent a too great increase of the herbivorous races, which are rendered excessively fruitful to keep the world full.
I refer to the existence on the globe in all past periods of organic life of the two great classes of carnivorous and herbivorous animals; and they have always existed, too, in about the same proportion.
If, for instance, one race of carnivorous species died out, new races were created to occupy their place, so that the herbivorous species should not overrun the globe.
Had they not appeared when the cephalopods passed away, the herbivoroustribes would have multiplied to such an extent as ultimately to destroy marine vegetation, and bring on famine among themselves.
So the whole digestive apparatus in the carnivora is more simple, and of less extent, than in the herbivorous tribes, while in the former the gastric juice acts more readily upon flesh, and in the latter upon vegetables.
These animals, as they now exist, are divisible into the two great classes of carnivorous and herbivorous species, being distinguished by their anatomical structure; and so has it ever been.
These examples are sufficient to prove the existence of the carnivorous and herbivorous races in all ages and in about the same relative numbers.
