Why elephant have trunks and giraffe long tongues: how plants shape large herbivore mouth morphology

We investigated whether mass and morphological spatial patterns in plants possibly induced the development of enlarged soft mouth parts in especially megaherbivores. We used power functions and geometric principles to explore allometric relationships of both morphological and foraging characteristic...

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Vydané v:	Acta zoologica (Stockholm) Ročník 97; číslo 2; s. 246 - 254
Hlavní autori:	Pretorius, Yolanda, de Boer, Willem F., Kortekaas, Kim, van Wijngaarden, Machiel, Grant, Rina C., Kohi, Edward M., Mwakiwa, Emmanuel, Slotow, Rob, Prins, Herbert H. T.
Médium:	Journal Article
Jazyk:	English
Vydavateľské údaje:	Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.04.2016
Predmet:	allometry Animal behavior bite mass Body size Elephants feeding station Herbivores instantaneous intake Leaves Leerstoelgroep Resource Ecology Morphology Mouth PE&RC Resource Ecology
ISSN:	0001-7272, 1463-6395
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