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The ankles are artiodactyl-like, with a double-pulley astragalus, notched cuboid, and curved fibular facet characteristic of artiodactyls Maiacetus has a piscivorous dentition and, like other early protocetids, is interpreted as an amphibious, semiaquatic, foot-powered swimmer that fed in the sea and came ashore to rest, mate, and give birth, as anticipated by Fordyce — PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
This last term is inappropriate, as it is not in any way piscivorous. — The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
Hargeby A, Blom H, Gunnar IB, Andersson G (2005) Increased growth and recruitment of piscivorous perch, — PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
The analysis of the excrements of man, of the piscivorous birds (as the guano), of the horse, and of cattle, furnishes us with the precise knowledge of the salts they contain, and demonstrates, that in those excrements, we return to the fields the ashes of the plants which have served as food, -- the soluble and insoluble salts and earths indispensable to the development of cultivated plants, and which must be furnished to them by a fertile soil. — Familiar Letters on Chemistry
The other is carnivorous and piscivorous -- at one season killing and eating marmots and mice, at another frequenting the sea coast and subsisting upon fish. — Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt