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Comparative study of the body proportions in Elephantidae and other large herbivorous mammals. [PDF]
J AnatAbstractIn this study, we aimed to achieve three objectives: (1) to precisely characterize the body plans of Elephantidae and other large herbivorous mammals; (2) based on this analysis, to determine whether the body plans of the extinct woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) and steppe mammoth (M.
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Tooth marker of ecological abnormality: The interpretation of stress in extinct mega herbivores (proboscideans) of the Siwaliks of Pakistan [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Climate affects living ecosystems and defines species physiology. Climate change causes certain stress on animals, recorded as Enamel Hypoplasia (EH). Proboscideans, the mega herbivores, were extensively represented in the Siwaliks of Pakistan between ...
Muhammad Ameen +4 more
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Evolution of Mastication in the Elephantidae [PDF]
Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution, 1972 The value of any individual morphological trait derives from its adaptive significance to the total biology of the animals in which it is found. The difficulty arises in determining the adaptive value of isolated characters. Paleontologists can partially overcome this difficulty by analyzing characters as components of functional complexes.
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Commentary on the Adaptive Significance of Sociality Around Parturition Events, and Conspecific Support of Parturient Females in Some Social Mammals [PDF]
AnimalsIn recent decades, it has become apparent that during parturition events in a number of social mammals, social support behaviours from group mates can be directed to parturient females (and their newborn neonates).
Connie Allen Wild, Lisa Yon
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European Thyroid Journal, 2023 Recent loss of rhinoceros subspecies has renewed interest in using more advanced assisted reproductive technologies (ART) in rhinoceroses and elephants. Currently, only semen collection, semen preservation and artificial insemination (AI) have been used ...
Janine Meuffels-Barkas +4 more
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First Mammuthus (Elephantidae) findings from Samsun district (Türkiye)
Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration, 2023 Located between Africa, Asia and Europe, Anatolia is a crossroads for the migration of many mammals such as elephantids. For this reason, important fossils belonging to different species of elephantids were found from various localities.
Ebru Albayrak
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Estudios Geologicos, 2021 El primer registro de un proboscídeo en el sector oriental de la Cuenca del Guadalquivir se ha localizado en los abanicos aluviales desarrollados durante una etapa intensa de erosión de los nuevos relieves del frente montañoso más externo de la ...
Matías Reolid +2 more
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eLife, 2021 The risk of developing cancer is correlated with body size and lifespan within species. Between species, however, there is no correlation between cancer and either body size or lifespan, indicating that large, long-lived species have evolved enhanced ...
Juan M Vazquez, Vincent J Lynch
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iScience, 2022 Summary: The extinct Gomphotheriidae is the only proboscidean family that colonized South America. The phylogenetic position of the endemic taxa has been through several revisions using morphological comparisons.
Sina Baleka +7 more
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Nature Conservation Research: Заповедная наука, 2021 The decline and isolation of wild megafauna populations are increasingly recognised in Africa. In Côte d'Ivoire where elephants are a national symbol, the Taï National Park (TNP) is a key remaining habitat for Loxodonta cyclotis.
Malé R. Kely +7 more
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