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Carnivora (/ k ɑːr ˈ n ɪ v ər ə / kar-NIH-vər-ə) is an order of placental mammals specialized primarily in eating flesh, whose members are formally referred to as carnivorans.
Various carnivorans, with feliforms to the left, and caniforms to the right. Carnivora is an order of placental mammals that have specialized in primarily eating flesh. Members of this order are called carnivorans, or colloquially carnivores, though the term more properly refers to any meat-eating organisms, and some carnivoran species are omnivores or herbivores.
Eupleridae is a family of carnivorans endemic to Madagascar and comprising 10 known living species in seven genera, commonly known as euplerids, Malagasy mongooses or Malagasy carnivorans. The best known species is the fossa ( Cryptoprocta ferox ), in the subfamily Euplerinae .
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Common name Binomial name Population Status Trend Notes Image Amur Leopard: Panthera pardus orientalis: 20-30 [1]: CR [1] [1]Numbers have fluctuated in recent censuses.
Mills, Gus; Hofer, Heribert (1998). Hyaenas: status survey and conservation action plan (PDF).IUCN/SSC Hyena Specialist Group. ISBN 978-2-8317-0442-5.Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 May 2013
Eoarctos is an extinct genus of arctoid carnivorans, known from the latest Eocene to early Oligocene of North Dakota and Nebraska.It is known from several remains, the most notable of which is the almost perfectly preserved skeleton of a large male.
In December 2005, pictures (taken in 2003 [2]) of a potential new species of carnivoran, known in the press as the "cat-fox" were published. [3] The images were taken by a night-time camera trap set by the WWF on the Indonesian side of Borneo. [4]