The effects of biting and pulling on the forces generated during feeding in the Komodo dragon (varanus komodoensis)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  D'Amore, Domenic C ^a,b   Moreno, Karen ^c,d,e,f   McHenry, Colin R ^g,h   Wroe, Stephen ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DAEMEN COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^e Université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier   (France)

^f Environmental Research Observatory (ORE) HYBAM Centre IRD d'Ile de France   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^h MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BITE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FORCE; FORCE TRANSDUCER; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HEAD MOVEMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; LIMB MOVEMENT; LIZARD; MALE; MASTICATION; MUSCLE MASS; NONHUMAN; VARANUS KOMODOENSIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; BIOMECHANICS; BODY WEIGHT; CARNIVORY; HISTOLOGY; MECHANICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; REPTILE;

VARANUS KOMODOENSIS; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BODY WEIGHT; CARNIVORY; MALE; MECHANICAL PROCESSES; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; REPTILES;

EID: 80054785557     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026226     Document Type: Article

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