Body size in proboscideans, with notes on elephant metabolism

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 140, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 523-549

  Christiansen, Per ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Body mass; Limb bones; Mammoths

Indexed keywords

ELEPHANT; ELEPHANTIDAE; ELEPHAS; LOXODONTA; MAMMALIA; MAMMUTHUS;

EID: 1942440868     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00113.x     Document Type: Article

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