Elbow-joint morphology as a guide to forearm function and foraging behaviour in mammalian carnivores

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 91-104

  Andersson, Ki ^a,b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Carnivora; Cursoriality; Functional morphology; Mammalia; Morphometrics; Multivariate statistics; Principal components analysis; Truss network

Indexed keywords

ACINONYX JUBATUS; CARNIVORA; FELIS CATUS; MAMMALIA; MUSTELIDAE;

EID: 4544298106     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00129.x     Document Type: Article

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