Group‐hunting is ubiquitous across animal taxa and has received considerable attention in
the context of its functions. By contrast much less is known about the mechanisms by which …

Unlike their medium-sized relatives of the genus Canis, whose arrival is dated around 3 Ma,
the appearance in western Europe of large-sized hypercarnivorous canids took place at the …

By the end of the Eocene (37 Ma), species of the genus Hesperocyon began to appear. A
single species, H. gregarius, has been found in the badlands of the western Great Plains …

Members of the order Carnivora display a broad range of locomotor habits, including
cursorial, scansorial, arboreal, semiaquatic, aquatic, and semifossorial species from multiple …

Mamíferos de médio e grande porte do Nordeste do Brasil: distribuição e taxonomia, com
descrição de novas espécies. Este trabalho pretende compilar o conhecimento atual da …

In this study, three-dimensional landmark-based methods of geometric morphometrics are
used for estimating the influence of phylogeny, allometry and locomotor performance on …

Cooperative hunting involves individual predators relating in time and space to each other's
actions to more efficiently track down and catch prey. The evolution of advanced cognitive …

Background Body mass estimation is of paramount importance for paleobiological studies,
as body size influences numerous other biological parameters. In mammals, body mass has …

The ways in which the taxonomic differences in morphology, behavior or life history relate to
each other have been used regularly to test ideas about the selective forces involved in their …

As the center of convergence of some of the major bioregions of South America, Paraguay is
a biodiverse country of biogeographic importance. Yet despite a long history of natural …