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... menadoensis. Fricke et al., 19 95 Erdmann et al., 1998 Pouyard et al., 1999 BIO-NOTE 5. 3 Coelacanths Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 5. Gnathostome Fishes Text © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2003 100 Chapter Five and ... gives recom- mendations of what to eat and what to avoid to be ecologi- cally responsible. Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 5. Gnathostome Fishes Text © The McGraw−Hill...

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... class of vertebrates are given in Chapters 4–6, 7, and 9. Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 2. Systematics and Vertebrate Evolution Text © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2003 44 Chapter Two Vertebrate ... Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 2. Systematics and Vertebrate Evolution Text © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2003 CHAPTER 2 Systematics and Vertebrate Evolution ■ INTRODUCTION Biologist...

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... a 58 . 5- kg antelope that was swallowed by an African rock python (Diamond, 1994). An Asian reticulated python consumed a 12.6-kg goat and a 17 . 5- kg goat at one sitting, and then downed a 32-kg ... The pressure exerted Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 8. Reptiles: Morphology, Reproduction, and Development Text © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2003 240 Chapter Eight FIGURE 8 .51 The lon...

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... deer (Odocoileus virgini- anus texanus) herd (Fig. 10 .5) . Fawn survival was 30 percent Year Inside Deer per sq/km 2 90 85 80 75 70 65 60 55 50 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 1972 1973 1974 19 75 1976 ... (thousands) 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 18 45 1 855 18 65 18 75 18 85 18 95 19 05 19 15 19 25 19 35 (b) (a) Population cycles for the snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus) an...

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... embryonic tissues in Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 1. The Vertebrate Story: An Overview Text © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2003 20 Chapter One (a) (b) FIGURE 1. 25 (a) The black-headed sagui dwarf ... by other sala- manders and frogs. In some cases, the male parent guards the eggs. Altricial One-day-old meadowlark Precocial One-day-old ruffed grouse FIGURE 1.21 Comparison of 1-day-old...

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... believed that cephalochordates were the probable vertebrate ancestors. As evidence, they cited the discovery of the mid-Cambrian 52 0- million-year-old Pikaia gracilens, a cephalochordate fossil found ... primitive Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 4. Early Chordates and Jawless Fishes Text © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2003 Early Chordates and Jawless Fishes 81 (a) (b) (a) Arandaspis, a...

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... development 20 18 16 14 12 10 3 20 18 16 14 12 10 3 0 255 0 751 00 Rana sylvatica Rana pipiens 10.0° 15. 3°18 .5 19.9°23.7° 26.0° 19.8° 18.6° 15. 3° 1 25 150 1 75 200 2 25 250 2 75 0 15 30 45 60 75 90 1 05 120 1 35 150 1 65 Hours since first ... Teleost fish (a) Vertebrate embryo (e) Anuran 123 456 3 456 3 456 3 456 34 6 3 - Carotid arch 4 - Systemic arch 6 - Pulmo...

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... males. (a) 6 0- to 80-ton titanosaur; (b) 55 -ton Supersaurus; (c) 4 5- ton Brachiosaurus (=Ultrasaurus); (d) 13-ton Shantungosaurus; (e) 6-ton Triceratops; (f) 7-ton Tyrannosaurus; (g) 16-ton Indricotherium; ... (g) 16-ton Indricotherium; (h) 2-ton Rhinoceros; (i) 5- ton Megacerops; (j) 10-ton Mammuthus; (k) 6-ton Loxodonta; (l) 0.3-ton Panthera; (m) 1-ton Scutosaurus; (n) 1-ton Megalan...

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... artic- ulation permits the typical vertical (up-and-down) move- ment of the head, whereas the atlas–axis articulation allows lateral (side-to-side) movements of the head. Linzey: Vertebrate Biology ... mid-1980s and Eosimias in 1994, the oldest well-documented anthropoids came from 36-million-year-old rocks in Egypt, suggesting that such creatures arose in Africa; however, the Eosimias f...

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... the 10,000-km trek to Baja—a distance spanning more than one-third of the globe—would rank among the longest docu- mented marine vertebrate migrations. Bowen, 19 95 Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 11. ... English sparrow (Passer domes- ticus) ( Johnston and Selander, 1964) and starling (Sturnus Proportion of mice 0.6 0 .5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0 0 50 51 –100 101– 150 151 –200 201– 250 251 –3...

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