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Snout Shape in Extant Ruminants

Snout shape is a prominent aspect of herbivore feeding ecology, interacting with both forage selectivity and intake rate. Previous investigations have suggested ruminant feeding styles can be discriminated via snout shape, with grazing and browsing species characterised by ‘blunt’ and ‘pointed’ snou...

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Autores principales: Tennant, Jonathan P., MacLeod, Norman
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4221202/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25372878
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0112035