Carnivorous animals such as ourselves use the carbon in protein and the fat in meat to build muscles and store energy.

像我们这种的食肉动物，利用蛋白质中的碳和肉类中的脂肪来锻炼肌肉和储存能量。

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Carnivorous animals have a very small caecum.

食肉类动物的盲肠很小。

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We'd better go and see the carnivorous animals.

我们最好去看食肉动物。

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"Presumably they're poorly equipped to hunt other animals, including their own species, so it's an evolutionary question as to why cannibalism still exists among non-carnivorous animals, " he said.

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It is not a pretty, or terribly edifying sight, whether for farmers, carnivorous consumers, politicians or those who care about animals.

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