Morphological correlates of tough food consumption in large land carnivores

Italian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 45-50

  Raia, Pasquale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Convergent evolution; Feeding habits; Functional morphology; Geometric morphometrics

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; ECOMORPHOLOGY; FOOD CONSUMPTION; MORPHOMETRY;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 1942466622     PISSN: 11250003     EISSN: 17485851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11250000409356549     Document Type: Article

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