Nest construction in mammals: a review of the patterns of construction and functional roles

DC Deeming - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Nesting behaviour in mammals has been investigated in a wide variety of species but to
date there has not been any scholarly review of the incidence and roles of these nests. Not …

Riqueza, endemismo y conservación de los mamíferos de Colombia

S Solari, Y Muñoz-Saba… - Mastozoología …, 2013 - SciELO Argentina
Se actualiza la diversidad de especies de mamíferos de Colombia con base en una nueva
revisión de especímenes en las mayores colecciones del país y el extranjero y la …

[HTML][HTML] Multiple colors in anteaters: review and description of chromatic disorders in Tamandua (Xenarthra: Pilosa) with reports of new and rare coat colorations

L Cotts, JP Slifkin, R Moratelli, L Gonçalves… - Zoologia …, 2023 - SciELO Brasil
Tamandua Gray, 1825 contains two species of anteaters: Tamandua mexicana (Saussure,
1860), which occurs in southern Mexico, throughout Central America and south to the west …

Integrative approach uncovers new patterns of ecomorphological convergence in slow arboreal xenarthrans

F Alfieri, L Botton-Divet, JA Nyakatura… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2022 - Springer
Identifying ecomorphological convergence examples is a central focus in evolutionary
biology. In xenarthrans, slow arboreality independently arose at least three times, in the two …

From fairies to giants: untangling the effect of body size, phylogeny, and ecology on vertebral bone microstructure of xenarthran mammals

EH Zack, SM Smith… - Integrative Organismal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Trabecular bone is a spongy bone tissue that serves as a scaffolding-like support inside
many skeletal elements. Previous research found allometric variation in some aspects of …

Effect of captivity on the vertebral bone microstructure of xenarthran mammals

EH Zack, SM Smith, KD Angielczyk - The Anatomical Record, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Captive specimens in museum collections facilitate study of rare taxa, but the lifestyles, diets,
and lifespans of captive animals differ from their wild counterparts. Trabecular bone …

Camera trapping reveals multispecies use of water‐filled tree holes by birds and mammals in a neotropical forest

CM Delgado‐Martínez, SJ Cudney‐Valenzuela… - Biotropica, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Using camera traps, we documented that 21 bird and 9 mammal species use water‐filled
tree holes (dendrotelmata) in the seasonal tropical forest of the Calakmul Biosphere …

Using manual ungual morphology to predict substrate use in the Drepanosauromorpha and the description of a new species

XA Jenkins, AC Pritchard, AD Marsh… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Fossils of drepanosauromorphs, a clade of non-saurian diapsids, were once considered
relatively rare in the Chinle Formation of the southwestern United States as well as in Upper …

Osteology and Functional Morphology of the Axial Postcranium of the Marine Sloth Thalassocnus (Mammalia, Tardigrada) with Paleobiological Implications

E Amson, C Argot, HG McDonald… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2015 - Springer
The gross morphology of the axial postcranium of Thalassocnus is presented here,
completing the description of the skeleton of the genus. Thalassocnus is characterized by a …

A therian mammal with sprawling kinematics? Gait and 3D forelimb X-ray motion analysis in tamanduas

A Scheidt, PC Ditzel, SM Geiger… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.biologists.com
Therian mammals are known to move their forelimbs in a parasagittal plane, retracting the
mobilised scapula during stance phase. Non-cursorial therian mammals often abduct the …