Hypercarnivorous teeth and healed injuries to Canis chihliensis from Early Pleistocene Nihewan beds, China, support social hunting for ancestral wolves

Collaborative hunting by complex social groups is a hallmark of large dogs (Mammalia: Carnivora: Canidae), whose teeth also tend to be hypercarnivorous, specialized toward increased cutting edges for meat consumption and robust p4-m1 complex for cracking bone. The deep history of canid pack hunting...

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Autores principales: Tong, Haowen, Chen, Xi, Zhang, Bei, Rothschild, Bruce, White, Stuart, Balisi, Mairin, Wang, Xiaoming
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2020
Materias:
Animal Behavior
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7485486/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33194358
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9858

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7485486/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33194358
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9858

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