How muscle mass is part of the fabric of behavioral ecology in East African bovids (Madoqua, Gazella, Damaliscus, Hippotragus)

Anatomy and Embryology

Volumn 195, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 375-386

  Grand, Theodore I ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral ecology; Bovids; Locomotor evolution; Musculoskeletal anatomy; Scale effects; Tissue composition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY SIZE; BOVIDS; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; ECOLOGY; FORELIMB; GAIT; HINDLIMB; JOINT MOBILITY; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE MASS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANTELOPES; ANTHROPOMETRY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY MASS INDEX; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

ANIMALIA; BOVIDAE; CONNOCHAETES; CUBITUS; DAMALISCUS; DAMALISCUS PYGARGUS; GAZELLA; GAZELLA DORCAS; HIPPOTRAGUS; HIPPOTRAGUS NIGER; MACACA; MADOQUA; MADOQUA KIRKII; NEOTRAGUS; ORYX; TRAGELAPHUS;

EID: 0030958981     PISSN: 03402061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004290050058     Document Type: Article

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