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If you are physiologically a grain-eater, then you need to eat grains.
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If you are physiologically a grain-eater, then you need to eat grains.
Archive 2006-05-01 2006
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Meadow Mice are generally considered a nuisance, and the one devoured probably was of a cantankerous disposition; but just the same it gives one an unpleasant sensation to think of this elegant little creature, in appearance, innocence personified, wearing all the insignia of a grain-eater, yet ruthlessly indulging in such a bloody and cannibal feast.
Wild Animals at Home Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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In the mammalia, for example, we have in the common rat a fish-eater and flesh-eater as well as a grain-eater, which has no doubt helped to give it the power of spreading over the world and driving away the native rats of other countries.
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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