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... Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 14. Techniques for Ecological and Behavioral Studies Text © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2003 400 Chapter Fourteen FIGURE 14. 13 Annual rings in the horn of a 10-year-old ... older. Sources: Halls (ed.) in White-tailed Deer Ecology and Management, 1984, Stackpole Books, and Cockrum, Mammalogy, 1962, Ronald Press. FIGURE 14. 12 Linzey: Vertebrate Biolo...

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... 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 altricial ... recessed in paired, blind-ended pits known as nasal sacs. In all other ver- tebrates, the olfactory region is connected to the oral cavity. Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 1. The Vertebrate St...

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... 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 470-million-year-old ... 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 cephaloc...

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... males. (a) 6 0- to 80-ton titanosaur; (b) 55-ton Supersaurus; (c) 45-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 Megalania. Hu...

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... end of the Cretaceous and that at least some Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 15. Extinction and Extirpation Text © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2003 414 Chapter Fifteen Former range Former range Population ... those invertebrates such as snails (or their shells) that are an important source of calcium dur- ing egg-shell formation. Decreased availability of dietary cal- FIGURE 15.11 The b...

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... yellowheads, pipipi, shrike-tits, whistlers, shrike-thrushes, pitohuis, crows, ravens, magpies, jays, nutcrackers, choughs, birds-of-paradise, currawongs, wood-swallows, orioles, cuckoo-shrikes, fan tails, ... herd/pod Wolf he-wolf she-wolf pup pack/rout Zebra stallion mare colt herd Linzey: Vertebrate Biology Back Matter Appendix © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2003 Classification of Livi...

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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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... 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 Companies, 2003 114 Chapter Five Remnants ... sim- ilar in the different groups of vertebrates, they will be dis- cussed here. In the other vertebrate groups, discussion will focus only on instances where a hormone has a...

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... forms was estab- lished by the end of the Devonian. Two other groups of labyrinthodonts evolved: the tem- nospondyls and the anthracosaurs. Members of the order Tem- Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 6. ... replaced an indefinite num- ber of times if lost or injured, which is known as polyphyo- dont dentition. Because amphibians do not chew their food, Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 6. Amphibi...

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... Besides their function of allowing side-to-side movement of the vertebral column, epaxial muscles take on new functions including support and Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 8. Reptiles: Morphology, Reproduction, ... series of long-chain methyl ketones (Mason et al., 1989). Females of related groups of snakes have some of the same methyl ketones as well as variations of the com- Linzey: Ve...

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