Skull mechanics and implications for feeding behaviour in a large marsupial carnivore guild: The thylacine, Tasmanian devil and spotted-tailed quoll

Journal of Zoology

Volumn 285, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 292-300

  Attard, M R G ^a   Chamoli, U ^a   Ferrara, T L ^a   Rogers, T L ^a   Wroe, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bite force; Dasyuromorphia; Dasyurus; Finite element analysis; Sarcophilus; Thylacinus

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; CARNIVORE; DIET; EXTINCTION RISK; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GUILD; MARSUPIAL; SKULL; SPECIALIZATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

DASYUROMORPHIA; DASYURUS; DASYURUS MACULATUS; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; SARCOPHILUS; SARCOPHILUS HARRISII; THYLACINUS; THYLACINUS CYNOCEPHALUS;

EID: 80855148071     PISSN: 09528369     EISSN: 14697998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2011.00844.x     Document Type: Article

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