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Bite club: comparative bite force in big biting mammals
PaperThis influential comparative study estimated bite forces across a broad range of living and extinct mammalian carnivores using dry-skull dissection methods and lever modelling, then scaled the results…
Wroe, S.; McHenry, C.; Thomason, J. · Proceedings of the Royal Society B · 2005
Research overview: melanism and the recurrence of black coats across wild cats
OverviewBlack, or melanistic, coats appear repeatedly in wild cats, and this overview reviews this phenomenon and its causes. Melanism, seen famously in black leopards and jaguars, results from genetic varian…
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