insectivora

In all, 4 species of insectivora, 4 bats, 5 lagomorphs, 32 rodents, 18 carnivores, 9 artiodactyla, 5 lizards and 3 snakes are recorded in the Tuvan reserves, among them 22 locally rare species of mammal. 41 species of mammal are recorded for the Mongolian portion.

Uvs Nuur Basin, Russian Federation, Republic of Tuva and Mongolia 2008

Possibly the species of mammals treated may have something to do with this, the skins of carnivorous animals bearing exposure better than those of the rodentia -- hares, rabbits, squirrels, etc, and insectivora -- bats, shrew-mice, and moles -- indeed, the latter animals must be skinned almost as soon as they are dead, or the skin turns

Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Montagu Browne

We might then dwell more on their resemblances to lower types -- to rodents, to insectivora, and to marsupials, and should hardly rank the hideous baboon above the graceful leopard or stately stag.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 Various

At this remoter period they were probably not separable from the insectivora, or (perhaps) from the ancestral marsupials.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 Various

These buildings were dark, damp and infested with a multiplicity of insectivora.

The Woman with a Stone Heart A Romance of the Philippine War

Even now we have one living form, the curious Galeopithecus or flying lemur, which has only recently been separated from the lemurs, with which it was formerly united, to be classed as one of the insectivora; and it is only among the Opossums and some other marsupials that we again find hand-like feet with opposable thumbs, which are such a curious and constant feature of the monkey tribe.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 Various

The exceptions are mainly insectivora, and such larger animals as the mythology of the Igorot says were once men -- as the monkey, serpent-eagle, crow, snake, etc.

The Bontoc Igorot Albert Ernest Jenks 1911

Gazing into the infinity of space human existence seemed but the scum upon a rainpool, human warfare but the frenzy of insectivora.

The Man Who Rocked the Earth Arthur Cheney Train 1910

* Faint vestigeal indications occur in the developing skulls of some insectivora.

Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata 1906

The carnivora and insectivora, with certain exceptions, prefer freshly killed food.

The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881