My travel companions — María, an effusive Madrileña who drove expertly over cliff-hanging roads, and Joan, an adventurous Catalan who helped us discover the Iberian secret — were old friends and fellow carnivores. Source: New York Times In this sentence, carnivores means: people who avoid social contacts animals with bony skeletons people who travel for pleasure animals that feed on flesh

animals that feed on flesh

Explanation:

Carnivores are those animals that feed on flesh of other animals. Examples of carnivores are lion, tiger, dog and cat etc. There are three types of animals on the basis of feeding behaviour i. e. herbivores are those organisms that feed on plants such as cow goat, deer etc, carnivores are the animals that feed on flesh and omnivores are those organisms that feed on  both plants and flesh e.g human and bear.

chordata is the answer

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