77// I ARNIVORA 



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Order 11. Carnivora i The bear, cat, I . and 



lion recall the leading forms <>f this order. kull 



l . 21) is massive, though tin- head is small or of mod- 

 erate size; the teeth are all well developed, • ally the 

 canines; the molars usually have two or three roots, and 

 the feel have large claws. The stomach is simple. Tiie 

 bral hemispheres of the lower carnivores ha lally 

 but three distincl convolutions, while the latter are much 

 more numerous and complicated, the brain itself 1 

 broader in the aquatic forms (Pinnipedia). The group 

 is divided into two sub-orders, i.e., the Pinnipedia oi . • 



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Fig. 388.— Bough Seal (Pha a hispida). From NTordanakHJld. 



and the land - lia). In the former group 



the feel are webbed, the toes being connected; the wrist 

 and fool only proj beyond the skin of the body, and 



there arc n<> external ears, <>r only small om 



The walrus 322), the seals (Fig. 323), and the 



eared seals or sea-lions (Ota /.'■ ' the types of the 



aquatic Carnivores; the sea-lioi a can walk on all four.-, and 

 in certain peculiarities of the skull they resemble the 1 



Of tlu 1 terrestrial normal Carnivora, th< ati, 



Oercoleptes, and bear, together with a number of 

 forms, are the more generalized or lower types. They are 



