Mandibular force profiles of extant carnivorans and implications for the feeding behaviour of extinct predators

By F. Therrien. 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Paleontology

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Constraint and adaptation in the evolution of carnivoran skull shape (2011, background): “…directly to the need to deliver a high bite force and have developed independently in the various carnivore families considered here (Van Valkenburgh 1991, 2007; Biknevicius and Ruff 1992; Van Valkenburgh and Koepfli 1993; Biknevicius and Van Valkenburgh 1996; Therrien 2005a,b; Meloro et al. 2008).”
Feeding behaviour and bite force of sabretoothed predators (2005, methodology): “…predators (with a few exceptions, see below) share two characteristics: (1) great bite forces (high Zx/L-values); and (2) great dorsoventral buttressing of the anterior part of the mandible (Zx/Zycanine >> 1.00, even greater than in felids with specialized killing techniques; see Therrien, 2005).”
Paleoecology of the large carnivore guild from the late Pleistocene of Argentina (2006, background): “…hunt larger prey and consumed larger amount of bones than the living Canis lupus Linnaeus, 1758 (e.g., Kurtén and Anderson 1980; Van Valkenburgh and Ruff 1987; Van Valkenburgh and Hertel 1993; Biknevicius and Van Valkenburgh 1996; Van Valkenburgh and Sacco 2002; Wroe et al. 2005; Therrien 2005a).”
The giant hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris: Modelling the bone-cracking behavior of an extinct carnivore (2011, background): “A number of studies (e.g., Biknevicius and Ruff, 1992; Biknevicius and Van Valkenburgh, 1996; Therrien, 2005a,b; Therrien et al., 2005) have used the external dimensions of mandibles to model them as simplified solid, elliptical beams (i.e., cantilevers) that undergo bending loads during feeding.”
Implications of predatory specialization for cranial form and function in canids (2009, background): “…2007), while those that focus on skull strength, or the ability to sustain loads, examine aspects of cranial and mandibular shape, as well as cortical thickness (Biknevicius & Ruff, 1992; Van Valkenburgh & Koepfli, 1993; Covey & Greaves, 1994; Biknevicius & Van Valkenburgh, 1996; Therrien, 2005).”
Craniodental indicators of prey size preference in the Felidae (2009, background): “…nebulosa, the clouded leopard, is a mixed prey cat that has also received much recent focus because it is a smaller, mixed-prey pantherine and because of its anomalously long canines relative to skull size (Therrien, 2005; Christiansen, 2006; Christiansen, 2007; Slater & Van Valkenburgh, 2008).”
Morphological correlates of bite force and diet in the skull and mandible of phyllostomid bats (2009, background): “Robustness of the dentary seems to be functionally linked in carnivore mammals with an increased development of the temporalis (Maynard-Smith & Savage 1959) providing increased support against the stress generated by biting, particularly for species whose feeding behaviour includes cracking bones (T”