Lions and tigers are carnivores.
But locals do poach the wild deer and pigs, cutting in on carnivores' food sources.
Battles between these mega carnivores must have been quite a spectacle.
I did mostly vegetarian food but put a couple of meat dishes out for the carnivores.
Studying the ecology of carnivores in the rainforest, he thinks like a desperate civet running out of territory.
While ancient primates like Sahelanthropus tchadensis gave sabretooth cats a wide berth, they may also have depended on these big carnivores - and others - for their survival.
FOR snivelling children and recalcitrant carnivores, requests that they should eat five portions of fruit and vegetables every day have mostly fallen on deaf ears.
Road kill, largely in the form of horses hit by cars, provides much of the meat for the carnivores at Villa Lorena.
Of the thousands of mammal fossils that workers have unearthed along with the hominid remains, many come from large carnivores such as saber-toothed cats, panthers, bears, hyenas and wolves.
