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Order 11. Carnivora (Ferce). — The bear, cat, tiger, and 
lion recall the leading forms of this order. The skull 
(Fig. 321) is massive, thoiigli the head is small or of mod- 
erate size; the teeth are all well developed, especially the 
canines; the molars usually have two or three roots, and 
the feet have large claws. The stomach is simple. The 
cerebral hemispheres of the lower carnivores have usually 
but three distinct convolutions, while the latter are much 
more numerous and comi)licated, the brain itself being 
broader in the aquatic forms {Pinnipedia). The group 
is divided into two sub-orders, i.e.y the Pinnipedia or seals. 
Fig. 323.— Rough Seal (Phoca hispida). From Nordenski51d. 
and the land species (Fissipedia). In the former group 
the feet are webbed, the toes being connected; the wrist 
and foot only projecting beyond the skin of the body, and 
there are no external ears, or only small ones. 
The walrus (Pig. 322), the seals (Fig. 323), and the 
eared seals or sea-lions (Otariidce) are the types of the 
aquatic Carnivores; the sea-lions can walk on all fours, and 
in certain peculiarities of the skull they resemble the bears. 
Of the terrestrial normal Carnivora, the raccoon, coati, 
Cercoleptes, and bear, together with a number of extinct 
forms, are the more generalized or lower types. They are 
