| 11. | Bears are overwhelmingly solitary and are considered to be the most asocial of all the Carnivora.
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| 12. | One author proposed that they should be placed outside the order Carnivora based on cranial morphology.
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| 13. | In the order Carnivora there are two dietary categories of durophagy, bonecrackers and bamboo eaters.
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| 14. | :Surprisingly, the closest surviving relatives of the Carnivora are ( probably ) the Pangolins.
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| 15. | :For the first part, Carnivora are placental carnivores, and the Dasyuromorphia are marsupials.
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| 16. | Members of Carnivora have a characteristic skull shape with relatively large brains encased in a heavy skull.
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| 17. | Carnivoramorpha consists of both Miacoidea and Carnivora, but excludes the order Creodonta that existed alongside Carnivoramorpha.
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| 18. | Since Dasyuromorphia are carnivores, why there are ranked as separate order and not suborder of Carnivora?
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| 19. | Being carnivorous does not put one, taxonomically, in the order " Carnivora ".
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| 20. | The word " carnivore " sometimes refers to the mammalian order Carnivora, but this is somewhat misleading.
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