Looks at the development of top carnivores and asks if they are really masters of their world or long term losers? The winners are the small carnivores.
The rise of bears and raccoons in the Carnivora, exhibit the most diverse feeding patterns of the group: predators, scavenging omnivores, specialist herbivores.
Explores the many different members of the cat family and their rise over 40 million years to represent a powerful group of predators within the Carnivora.