SEXUAL DIMORPHISM, SOCIAL BEHAVIOR, AND INTRASEXUAL COMPETITION IN LARGE PLEISTOCENE CARNIVORANS
By B. Van Valkenburgh, Tyson Sacco. 2002
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Subfields: Ecology, Paleontology
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In Ecology
- B. Van Valkenburgh
- Graham J. Slater
- S. Vizcaino
- F. Prevosti
- P. Bosque
- A. Turner
- F. Therrien
- M. Antón
In Paleontology
- B. Van Valkenburgh
- Graham J. Slater
- S. Vizcaino
- F. Prevosti
- P. Bosque
- A. Turner
- F. Therrien
- M. Antón
Citations in the corpus
- Long in the tooth: evolution of sabertooth cat cranial shape (2008, background): “However, sabertooths appear to exhibit only moderate amounts of dimorphism in canine proportions, suggesting that sexual selection is unlikely to be responsible for canine enlargement in these taxa (Van Valkenburgh and Sacco 2002; Salesa et al. 2006).”
- Dining in the Pleistocene : Who's on the menu? (2005, background): “An open woodland or mixed woodland-grassland habitat for S. fatalis is consistent with limb-bonelength ratios, which strongly suggest it was an ambush predator (Gonyea, 1976; van Valkenburgh and Sacco, 2002).”
- FIRST KNOWN COMPLETE SKULLS OF THE SCIMITAR-TOOTHED CAT MACHAIRODUS APHANISTUS (FELIDAE, CARNIVORA) FROM THE SPANISH LATE MIOCENE SITE OF BATALLONES-1 (2004, methodology): “Lions are social felids (Alderton, 1998; Bothma and Walker, 1999), but leopards are solitary animals (Bailey, 1993) implying, as Van Valkenburg and Sacco (2002) have warned, that such high degree of sexual dimorphism does not indicate the presence of group behavior.”
- 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).”
- Feeding behaviour and bite force of sabretoothed predators (2005, background): “Although Smilodon fatalis differs from other dirk-toothed ecomorphs in having a low Zx/Zycanine value, this difference may be related to the greater torsional stresses induced while feeding rapidly and more extensively on carcasses in response to intense predator competition (Van Valkenburgh & Herte”