Orientation of the lateral semicircular canal in Xenarthra and its links with head posture and phylogeny

F Coutier, L Hautier, R Cornette, E Amson… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The orientation of the semicircular canals of the inner ear in the skull of vertebrates is one of
the determinants of the capacity of this system to detect a given rotational movement of the …

Hiding in a Cool Climatic Niche in the Tropics? An Assessment of the Ecological Biogeography of Hairy Long-Nosed Armadillos (Dasypus pilosus)

X Feng, MC Castro, K McBee… - Tropical Conservation …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The hairy long-nosed armadillo (Dasypus pilosus) is endemic to the Andes in Peru and
rarely studied, thus more investigations are needed. To gain a better understanding of this …

Climatic Similarity of Extant and Extinct Dasypus Armadillos

X Feng, TCS Anacleto, M Papeş - Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 2017 - Springer
The similar geographic distributions of an extinct (Dasypus bellus) and an extant (D.
novemcinctus) armadillo species have long been of interest to scholars because of the …

Morphological evaluation of the thoracic, lumbar and sacral column of the giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla Linnaeus, 1758)

NC Borges, VS Cruz, NB Fares, JR Cardoso… - Pesquisa Veterinária …, 2017 - SciELO Brasil
This study aimed to describe the number of thoracic, lumbar and sacral vertebrae in
tridactyla through radiographic examinations associated with gross anatomy determination …

New early diverging cingulate (Xenarthra: Peltephilidae) from the Late Oligocene of Bolivia and considerations regarding the origin of crown Xenarthra

BJ Shockey, E Vlachos - Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 2017 - BioOne
Remains of peltephilid cingulates from the late Oligocene (Deseadan, South American Land
Mammal Age) of Salla, Bolivia, are described and organized as two morphs, the larger …

[HTML][HTML] Registro confirmado de Cyclopes Didactylus (PILOSA: CYCLOPEDIDAE) para el departamento de Risaralda, Colombia

JC Cepeda, J Chacón - Boletín Científico. Centro de Museos. Museo …, 2017 - scielo.org.co
El hormiguero de seda (Cyclopes didactylus) presenta vacíos en Colombia sobre aspectos
de su ecología básica, por lo que es necesario ampliar los registros en diferentes …

[PDF][PDF] Circadian behavior in mammals: an investigation of ecology, evolution and study methods

B Cid - 2017 - researchgate.net
Time is one of the three fundamental dimensions to characterize a species niche, being the
circadian rhythm a feature present in all living beings. Thus, activity time and temporal …