Trabecular bone morphology in big cats reflects the complex diversity of limb use but not home range size or daily travel distance

L Assif, H Chirchir - The Anatomical Record, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A relationship exists between mechanical loading and bone morphology. Although studies
show a relationship between trabecular bone morphology and locomotor strategy in …

A comparative study of trabecular bone mass distribution in cursorial and non‐cursorial limb joints

H Chirchir - The Anatomical Record, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Skeletal design among cursorial animals is a compromise between a stable body that can
withstand locomotor stress and a light design that is energetically inexpensive to grow …