This is because Canoidea tend to range in the temperate and subarctic biomes, although Mustelidae and Procyonidae have a few tropical species.

Most have highly-developed senses, especially vision and hearing, and often a highly acute sense of smell in many species, such as in the Canoidea.

The Canoidea superfamily ( or Caniformia suborder ) – Canidae ( wolves, dogs and foxes ), Mephitidae ( skunks and stink badgers ), Mustelidae ( weasels, badgers, and otters ), Procyonidae ( raccoons ), Ursidae ( bears ), Otariidae ( eared seals ), Odobenidae ( walrus ), and Phocidae ( earless seals ) ( the last three families formerly classified in the suborder Pinnipedia ) and the extinct family Amphicyonidae ( bear-dogs ) – are characterized by having nonchambered or partially chambered auditory bullae, nonretractable claws, and a well-developed baculum.

Caniformia, or Canoidea ( literally " dog-like "), is a suborder within the order Carnivora.

We'll still have the rifle, and I might be able to round up some more.

with more time I could have loosened a small burr or cotter pin --

But in our case -- and neither my wife nor I have extreme views on integration, nor are we given to emotional outbursts -- the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come close to wrecking several more.

Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.

Out of water, brick, and tile they have made far more than just a bridge.

And Hamilton, who felt it `` a religious duty '' to oppose Aaron Burr's political ambitions, would have been a better actuarial risk had he shown more literary restraint.

Some painters have less interest in the experience of the moment, with its attendant urgencies and ambiguities, than in looking beyond the flux of particular impressions to a higher, more serene level of truth.

Social invention did not have to await social theory any more than use of the warmth of a fire had to await Lavoisier or the buoyant protection of a boat the formulations of Archimedes.

This and other fears of the solar system have disappeared gradually, first, with the Ptolemaic system and its built-in concept of periodicity and then, more firmly, with the Newtonian innovation of an universal force that could account quantitatively for both terrestial and celestial motions.

I believe that what I do has some effect on his actions and I have learned, in a way, to commune with drunks, but certainly my actions seem to resemble more nearly the performance of a rain dance than the carrying out of an experiment in physics.

The major effect of these advances appears to lie in the part they have played in the industrial revolution and in the tools which scientific understanding has given us to build and manipulate a more protective environment.

In fact, the recent warnings about the use of X-rays have introduced fears and ambiguities of action which now require more detailed understanding, and thus in this instance, science has momentarily aggravated our fears.

I have more than once sat cross-legged in the grass through a long summer morning and watched without touching while a poppy bud higher than my head slowly but visibly pushed off its cap, unfolded, and shook out like a banner in the sun its flaming vermilion petals.

Another, more interesting explanation, is hinted at by Watson when he observes on several occasions that Holmes would have made a magnificent criminal.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

This means that the inception of change itself can begin only when the factors conducive to change have already become more powerful than those anchoring the existent form in being.

What is more, the legends have become so sacrosanct that the very habit of self-examination or self-criticism smells of low treason, and men who practice it are defeatists and unpatriotic scoundrels.

If you cut down these horrible buildings you'll have no more traffic jams.

I do not suppose you ever heard of F. Scott Fitzgerald, living or dead, and moreover I do not suppose that, even if you had, his legend would have seemed to you to warrant more than a cluck of disapproval.

Whether you experienced the passion of desire I have, of course, no way of knowing, nor indeed have I wished with even the most fleeting fragment of a wish to know, for the fact that one constitutes by one's mere existence so to speak the proof of some sort of passion makes any speculation upon this part of one's parents' experience more immodest, more scandalizing, more deeply unwelcome than an obscenity from a stranger.

Carnivorans are primarily terrestrial and usually have strong sharp claws, with never fewer than four toes on each foot, and well-developed, prominent canine teeth, cheek teeth ( premolars and molars ) that generally have cutting edges.

The adults have no incisor or canine teeth, just a set of cheek teeth, which are not clearly differentiated into molars and premolars.

Moose have six pairs of large, flat molars and, ahead of those, six pairs of premolars, to grind up their food.

Behind the interdental space, all horses also have twelve premolars and twelve molars, also known as cheek teeth or jaw teeth.

In addition to the incisors, premolars and molars, some, but not all, horses may also have canine teeth and wolf teeth.

Between 13 and 32 % of horses, split equally between male and female, also have wolf teeth, which are not related to canine teeth, but are vestigial premolars.

Cattle have six premolars and six molars on both top and bottom jaws for a total of twenty-four molars.

The full dental formula of dugongs is, meaning they have two incisors, three premolars, and three molars on each side of their upper jaw, and three incisors, one canine, three premolars, and three molars on each side of their lower jaw.

Canines and most premolars, except for maxillary first premolars, usually have one root.

Maxillary first premolars and mandibular molars usually have two roots.

" Hence most of the prosimians and platyrrhines have three premolars.

The morphological features of the cave bear chewing apparatus, including loss of premolars, have long been suggested to indicate their diets displayed a higher degree of herbivory than the Eurasian brown bear.

Placental mammals, the only surviving eutherians, have only up to three incisors on each top and bottom and four premolars to three molars, but the premolar / molar proportion is similar to placentals.

These particular premolars — P4s — have three rows of cusps, of which there seem to be about 15 or so in all.

Camelids also have true canine teeth and tusk-like premolars which are separated from the molars by a gap.

It has four mammary glands while the Lama species have two, and while dromedaries have three upper premolars Lama species have two.

Platyrrhines also differ from Old World monkeys in that they have twelve premolars instead of eight ; having a dental formula of ( consisting of 2 incisors, 1 canine, 3 premolars, and 3 molars.

Catarrhines also never have prehensile tails, and have flat fingernails and toenails, a tubular ectotympanic ( ear bone ), and eight, not twelve, premolars, giving them a dental formula of: .