The omnivorous creatures can live for more than 50 years, feeding on fish, insects and water plants.

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Consumers are still omnivorous: retail sales leapt 0.8% in February, fresh on the heels of a 1.5% rise the previous month.

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The coati is about the same size and shape as a raccoon and is omnivorous - eating leaves, fruit, small rodents, birds and eggs.

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The coati is an omnivorous animal and it was likely to be surviving on fruits, berries and leaves as well as mice and small birds.

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It weds the oral culture of his unlettered mother (the dedicatee of all his books) to an omnivorous bibliophilia encouraged by his stepfather, a hotel receptionist in Pointe-Noire on the Atlantic coast.

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This despite the fact that proposals for assessing risk in such areas as aviation do not grow out of an omnivorous desire to "spy on citizens" but out of a concrete need to protect people from a clear threat.

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His career in medicine (itself unexpected, since he had wandered towards maths, in the steps of his Uncle Henry, and then physics, all within the reach of his omnivorous intelligence, before ending up, at his father's stray suggestion, at Columbia University's medical school) was animated not by a goal, but by a question.

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