Mechanical analysis of feeding behavior in the extinct " Terror Bird " Andalgalornis steulleti(Gruiformes: phorusrhacidae)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Degrange, Federico J ^a   Tambussi, Claudia P ^a   Moreno, Karen ^b,c   Witmer, Lawrence M ^d   Wroe, Stephen ^c  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS NATURALES Y MUSEO   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDALGALORNIS STEULLETI; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; MASTICATION; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR STRESS; ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; ORIENTATION; SKULL; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

AVES; GRUIFORMES; PISONIA ACULEATA;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BIRDS; BITE FORCE; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; KINESIS; SKULL;

EID: 77957860814     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011856     Document Type: Article

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