Book Review: Carnivores of the World
Author: Luke Hunter Illustrated by: Priscilla Barrett Publisher: Princeton University Press Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar Many of us learned in our high school biology courses that living things belong to either the animal or the plant kingdom. You may also recall classification of these kingdoms into phylum, class and order, and further breakdown into family, genus and species. Well, carnivores belong to the order Carnivora and there are 245 terrestrial species of them, belonging to 13 specific families: bears; cats; civets, along with genets and oyans; the African palm civet; dogs; fosa and allies; hyenas; linsangs; mongooses; raccoons;...
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