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Animals with more than 70% meat in their diets
A hypercarnivore is a carnivorous animal that has a diet that is more than 70% meat, either via active predation or by scavenging. The remaining non-meat
Hypercarnivore
Organism that eats mostly or exclusively animal tissue
animal flesh for their nutrient requirements in nature are called hypercarnivores or obligate carnivores, whilst those that also consume non-animal food
Carnivore
Extinct genus of carnivorous ungulate from Eocene epoch
mesonychids, and it did not have the meat-slicing carnassial teeth of a hypercarnivore. Its incisors are arranged in a semicircle, similar to entelodonts,
Andrewsarchus
Family of mammals
indicates a carnivore's dietary habits, with a larger trigonid indicating a hypercarnivore and a larger talonid indicating a more omnivorous diet. Because of its
Canidae
Genus of canines
group and the large hypercarnivorous Canis (Xenocyon) lycaonoides. The hypercarnivore Xenocyon gave rise to the modern dhole and the African wild dog. Dentition
Canis
Species of bear native to the Arctic
allowing individuals to keep track of one another. The polar bear is a hypercarnivore, and the most carnivorous species of bear. It is an apex predator of
Polar_bear
Animal that can eat and survive on both plants and animals
exclusively herbivorous (hypocarnivore) to almost exclusively carnivorous (hypercarnivore), depending on what food sources are available locally and seasonally
Omnivore
Eating members of one's own species
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Cannibalism
Animals with less than 30% meat in their diets
The evolutionary division of carnivorans into three groups, including hypercarnivore and mesocarnivore, appears to have occurred about 40 million years ago
Hypocarnivore
Extinct genus of carnivores
11 million years. Enhydrocyon's dentition suggests this animal was a hypercarnivore or mesocarnivore. Species of Enhydrocyon were relatively large, powerfully
Enhydrocyon
Extinct genus of marsupials
1954, doubts were still being raised as to whether it was actually a hypercarnivore. In 1981, another paper was published arguing that certain cuts to bones
Thylacoleo
Practice of eating oneself
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Autocannibalism
bacteria etc. The term means "all-eater". By amount of meat in diet Hypercarnivore: more than 70% meat Mesocarnivore: 30–70% meat Hypocarnivore: less than
List_of_feeding_behaviours
Family of carnivores
Miocene-Early Pliocene of Europe, North America and China was likely a hypercarnivore. Like modern red panda it had a "false thumb" to aid in climbing. Members
Ailuridae
Gap in the fossil record
caniforms like Amphicyonidae – "bear dogs" - responded to the cat gap by evolving to become more cat-like, to fill the hypercarnivore ecological niche
Cat_gap
Organism that eats mostly animal tissue
as their small to medium size allows them to disperse seeds that hypercarnivores cannot. Mesocarnivores transport seeds in open spaces, as far as one
Mesocarnivore
Large cat native to Africa and India
dominates the others and mates more frequently. The lion is a generalist hypercarnivore and is considered to be both an apex and keystone predator due to its
Lion
Extinct carnivorous marsupial from Australasia
allowing it to pull down larger prey than the thylacine. Because it was a hypercarnivore, the thylacine was less versatile in its diet than the omnivorous dingo
Thylacine
Practice of humans eating other humans
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Human_cannibalism
Act of voluntarily ingesting feces
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Coprophagia
Creature that preys on humans
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Man-eating_animal
Extinct genus of carnivores
characteristics of Enhydrocyon. This dentition suggests this animal was a hypercarnivore or mesocarnivore.[citation needed] Paleobiology Database: Ectopocynus[permanent
Ectopocynus
Plants that consume animals
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Carnivorous_plant
Extinct genus of carnivores
approximately 5 million years. The dentition suggests that this animal was a hypercarnivore or mesocarnivore. In addition to its retention of several primitive
Paraenhydrocyon
Type of interaction between species
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Parasitism
Predator at the top of a food chain
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Apex_predator
Class of animals with milk-producing glands
consists of dull, triangular carnassial teeth meant for grinding food. Hypercarnivores, however, have conical teeth and sharp carnassials meant for slashing
Mammal
Extinct species of carnivore
years ago. Hartstone-Rose and colleagues claimed that L. sekowei was a hypercarnivore just like the modern African wild dog (L. pictus), though its front
Lycaon_sekowei
Organism that eats mostly or exclusively plant material
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Herbivore
Subfamily of carnivores
(January 2022). "Aragonictis araid, gen. et sp. nov., a small-sized hypercarnivore (Carnivora, Mustelidae) from the upper middle Miocene of the Iberian
Guloninae
Extinct genus of carnivores
from a single partial cranium, the dentition suggests the animal was a hypercarnivore or mesocarnivore.[citation needed] Caedocyon at Fossilworks Wang, X
Caedocyon
Cell membrane engulfing a large particle
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Phagocytosis
Animals that feed by straining food from water
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Filter_feeder
Organism that feeds primarily on sea sponges
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Spongivore
Animal that mostly eats flowers
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Florivore
Changes in patterns of biological consumption
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Xenophagy
Organism that consumes fungi
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Fungivore
Extinct species of canine mammal
to the influences of the environment. Similarly, the dire wolf was a hypercarnivore, with a skull and dentition adapted for hunting large and struggling
Dire_wolf
Practice of animals eating their own mating partners
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Sexual_cannibalism
Obsession with drinking blood
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Clinical_vampirism
Ecological niche involving feeding on blood
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Hematophagy
Wild cat species native to the Americas
effects on other predators in shared habitat. The cougar is a generalist hypercarnivore. It prefers large mammals such as mule deer, white-tailed deer, elk
Cougar
Organism which eats insects
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Insectivore
Practice of embryos feeding on eggs
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Oophagy
Extinct clade of dinosaurs
predators or specialized piscivores, eudromaeosaurs functioned as hypercarnivores and are suggested to have been predators of medium- to large-sized
Eudromaeosauria
Extinct subfamily of sabertooth cats
subfamily provides one of the best means of research for the analysis of hypercarnivores, specialization, and the relationships between predator and prey. Machairodonts
Machairodontinae
August 2021). "Aragonictis araid , gen. et sp. nov., a small-sized hypercarnivore (Carnivora, Mustelidae) from the upper middle Miocene of the Iberian
Aragonictis
Extant clade of dinosaurs
Sauropodomorpha in the redefined Saurischia and suggested that the hypercarnivore morphologies that are observed in specimens of theropods and herrerasaurids
Theropoda
Type of herbivory
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Browsing_(herbivory)
Practice of eating earth or soil-like substrates
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Geophagia
Organism that eats mostly fruit
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Frugivore
Animal that feeds on carrion, dead plants, or refuse
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Scavenger
Biological interaction
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Predation
Organism that eats mostly or exclusively fish tissue
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Piscivore
Ingestion of food
consists of dull, triangular carnassial teeth meant for grinding food. Hypercarnivores, however, have conical teeth and sharp carnassials meant for slashing
Eating
Subspecies of the giant panda
fiber consumption, further mirroring the macronutrient profiles of hypercarnivores. This approach may have facilitated the dietary transition of giant
Qinling_panda
Extinct genus of bears
Wyoming, demonstrating that isotope data cannot distinguish between hypercarnivores and omnivores that eat a significant amount of animal matter. Studies
Arctodus
Extinct genus of mammals
because of their different body sizes. Hemipsalodon, being the largest hypercarnivore present, focused on prey that weighed 780 kg (1,720 lb). The large size
Hemipsalodon
Feeding strategy for many animals
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Egg_predation
Animal that feeds on decomposing plant and animal parts as well as faeces
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Detritivore
Postpartum eating of human placenta
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Human_placentophagy
Parasitic insect reproductive strategy
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Anautogeny
Feeding livestock on forage
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Grazing
To feed by hunting and eating snakes
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Ophiophagy
Extinct genus of carnivores
nimravids in North America, the discovery of this species suggests that hypercarnivores evolved and spread quickly after the warm middle Eocene. The namesake
Pangurban
Organism capable of degrading and metabolising plastic
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Plastivore
Feeding mainly on seeds
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Seed_predation
Extinct species of carnivore
hypocone on the teeth was larger. Megacyon is thought to have been a hypercarnivore that preyed on large-sized prey such as deer. Megacyon is thought to
Megacyon
Extinct species of carnivore
less of a hypercarnivore than Canis chihliensis, the European C. etruscus and C. arnensis, but was less evolved and less of a hypercarnivore than C. lupus
Canis_mosbachensis
Extinct genus of hyaenodont mammals
Formation, but also the most best preserved of any Paleogene Afro-Arabian hypercarnivore. The long, shearing metastyles and the reduced and mesially shifted
Bastetodon
American ecologist
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August_Ludwig_Hormay
Herbivorous animal that specializes in eating leaves
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Folivore
Feeding on termites or ants
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Myrmecophagy
Former order of extinct flesh-eating placental mammals
Sarkastodon, both of which were some of the largest terrestrial mammalian hypercarnivores. The last genus, Dissopsalis, went extinct about 10 million years ago
Creodonta
Extinct family of mammals
upper and lower jaw. While many oxyaenids, such as Patriofelis, were hypercarnivores, some such as Oxyaena were more omnivorous, with meat-based but varied
Oxyaenidae
Method of feeding in herbivores, eating grasses and other plants
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Grazing_(behaviour)
Extinct species of carnivoran
leopards. The face is short, with a felid-like tooth pattern; Ekorus was a hypercarnivore. Analysis of the elbow indicates that it was a strong runner, like modern
Ekorus
Medical condition
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Pagophagia
Compulsive eating of non-food items
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Pica_(disorder)
Extinct genus of carnivores
America from the Late Pliocene to the Late Pleistocene. Protocyon was a hypercarnivore, suggested by its dental adaptations. Like many other large canids,
Protocyon
Extinct species of carnivore
cat (Prionailurus bengalensis). Mececyon is suggested to have been a hypercarnivore. It has been estimated that Mececyon trinilensis hunted prey of 1 kg
Mececyon
Act of mammals eating the placenta of their young after childbirth
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Placentophagy
Quarry in Pforzen, Germany
hyena Semigenetta S. grandis HAM 4 teeth Large (ca. 10 kg) viverrid, hypercarnivore with a similar dietary niche as jackals S. sansaniensis HAM 1 HAM 4
Hammerschmiede_clay_pit
Animal that preys on and eats birds
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Avivore
Consumption of honey
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Mellivory
Extinct family of carnivores
Amphicyonids are suggested to have ranged in ecology from omnivores to hypercarnivores, with some amphicyonids suggested to have engaged in bone-crushing
Amphicyonidae
Consumption of bones
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Osteophagy
Earliest subdivision of the Paleolithic
Homo rose to the ranks of omnivorous predators (and possibly became hypercarnivores before Homo sapiens again transformed into hypocarnivores). As active
Lower_Paleolithic
Transfer of food between members of a community through stomodeal or proctodeal means
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Trophallaxis
Organism that breaks down dead or decaying organisms
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Decomposer
Genus of carnivorous synapsids from the Permian
Maho, Sigi; Scott, Dianne; Reisz, Robert R. (19 August 2022). "Permian hypercarnivore suggests dental complexity among early amniotes". Nature Communications
Dimetrodon
Autonomous feeding of animals
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Aquatic_feeding_mechanisms
Animal that feeds primarily on grass
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Graminivore
Digestion of wood
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Xylophagy
Carnivorous animal that feeds on molluscs
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Molluscivore
Extinct dromaeosaurid genus from the Late Cretaceous period
Eudromaeosauria, a group of dromaeosaurids that were obligate terrestrial and hypercarnivore animals, better known as the "true dromaeosaurids". They strongly differ
Achillobator
Extinct family of marsupials
insects. Species of Wakaleo and Thylacoleo are thought to have been hypercarnivores that fed on larger prey. Thylacoleontidae is considered a member of
Thylacoleonidae
Extinct genus of pliosaurid
Cortés, D.; Maxwell, E.E.; Larsson, H.C.E. (2021). "Re-appearance of hypercarnivore ichthyosaurs in the Cretaceous with differentiated dentition: revision
Sachicasaurus
Animal in which nectar is a main source of nutrition in their diet
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Nectarivore
Eating of arachnids
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Arachnophagy
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