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Herbivory and body size: allometries of diet quality and gastrointestinal physiology, and implications for herbivore ecology and dinosaur gigantism by Clauss, Marcus, Steuer, Patrick, Müller, Dennis W H, Codron, Daryl, Hummel, Jürgen

“…Digestive physiology has played a prominent role in explanations for terrestrial herbivore body size evolution and size-driven diversification and niche…”
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Geographical Origin, Delayed Implantation, and Induced Ovulation Explain Reproductive Seasonality in the Carnivora by Heldstab, Sandra A., Müller, Dennis W. H., Graber, Sereina M., Bingaman Lackey, Laurie, Rensch, Eberhard, Hatt, Jean-Michel, Zerbe, Philipp, Clauss, Marcus

“…Patterns of reproductive seasonality in the Carnivora are difficult to study comparatively, due to limited numbers of species for which information is…”
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Chewing, dental morphology and wear in tapirs (Tapirus spp.) and a comparison of free-ranging and captive specimens by Hohl, Clemens J. M., Codron, Daryl, Kaiser, Thomas M., Martin, Louise F., Müller, Dennis W. H., Hatt, Jean-Michel, Clauss, Marcus

“…Feeding practice in herbivorous mammals can impact their dental wear, due to excessive or irregular abrasion. Previous studies indicated that browsing species…”
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Long-Term Olfactory Memory in African Elephants by Hoerner, Franziska, Lawrenz, Arne, Oerke, Ann-Kathrin, Müller, Dennis W H, Azogu-Sepe, Idu, Roller, Marco, Damerau, Karsten, Preisfeld, Angelika

“…African elephants are capable of discriminating scents up to a single changed molecule and show the largest reported repertoire of olfactory receptor genes…”
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Detecting inter-cusp and inter-tooth wear patterns in rhinocerotids by Taylor, Lucy A, Kaiser, Thomas M, Schwitzer, Christoph, Müller, Dennis W H, Codron, Daryl, Clauss, Marcus, Schulz, Ellen

“…Extant rhinos are the largest extant herbivores exhibiting dietary specialisations for both browse and grass. However, the adaptive value of the wear-induced…”
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Reproductive seasonality in primates: patterns, concepts and unsolved questions by Heldstab, Sandra A., van Schaik, Carel P., Müller, Dennis W. H., Rensch, Eberhard, Lackey, Laurie Bingaman, Zerbe, Philipp, Hatt, Jean‐Michel, Clauss, Marcus, Matsuda, Ikki

“…ABSTRACT Primates, like other mammals, exhibit an annual reproductive pattern that ranges from strictly seasonal breeding to giving birth in all months of the…”
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Larger Than Life? Body Mass Records of Zoo-Managed Giant Anteaters (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) by Garand, Elisa, Krauss, Christiane, Müller, Dennis W H, Davis, Leyla R, Codron, Daryl, Clauss, Marcus, Miranda, Flávia

“…It has been suggested repeatedly that zoo-kept giant anteaters (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) have higher body masses than their free-ranging conspecifics. Here, we…”
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Hypsodonty and tooth facet development in relation to diet and habitat in herbivorous ungulates: implications for understanding tooth wear by Kaiser, Thomas M., Müller, Dennis W. H., Fortelius, Mikael, Schulz, Ellen, Codron, Daryl, Clauss, Marcus

“…The evolution of high‐crowned teeth or hypsodonty in herbivorous mammals is widely interpreted as a species‐specific adaptation to increasingly wear‐inducing…”
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Reproductive seasonality in captive wild ruminants: implications for biogeographical adaptation, photoperiodic control, and life history by Zerbe, Philipp, Clauss, Marcus, Codron, Daryl, Bingaman Lackey, Laurie, Rensch, Eberhard, Streich, Jürgen W., Hatt, Jean-Michel, Müller, Dennis W. H.

“…Many ruminant species show seasonal patterns of reproduction. Causes for this are widely debated, and include adaptations to seasonal availability of resources…”
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Gross intestinal morphometry and allometry in ruminants by McGrosky, Amanda, Codron, Daryl, Müller, Dennis W. H., Navarrete, Ana, Isler, Karin, Hofmann, Reinhold R., Clauss, Marcus

“…While some descriptions of ruminants' dietary adaptations suggest that the length of the intestinal tract reflects the proportion of grass or browse in the…”
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Monitoring Behaviour in African Elephants during Introduction into a New Group: Differences between Related and Unrelated Animals by Hörner, Franziska, Oerke, Ann-Kathrin, Müller, Dennis W. H., Westerhüs, Uta, Azogu-Sepe, Idu, Hruby, Jiri, Preisfeld, Gela

“…The introduction of elephants into new groups is necessary for breeding programmes. However, behavioural studies on the reactions of these animals at first…”
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Do Equids Live longer than Grazing Bovids? by Tidière, Morgane, Duncan, Patrick, Lemaître, Jean-François, Gaillard, Jean-Michel, Lackey, Laurie Bingaman, Müller, Dennis W. H., Clauss, Marcus

“…A large part of the diversity of longevity and actuarial senescence (i.e., the progressive decline of survival probabilities with age) across vertebrates can…”
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Ontogenetic niche shifts in dinosaurs influenced size, diversity and extinction in terrestrial vertebrates by Codron, Daryl, Carbone, Chris, Müller, Dennis W. H., Clauss, Marcus

“…Given the physiological limits to egg size, large-bodied non-avian dinosaurs experienced some of the most extreme shifts in size during postnatal ontogeny…”
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test of the metabolic theory of ecology with two longevity data sets reveals no common cause of scaling in biological times by Lemaître, Jean‐François, Müller, Dennis W. H, Clauss, Marcus

“…The metabolic theory of ecology (MTE) predicts that biological times should universally scale to body mass M as M⁰.²⁵. However, support for this prediction…”
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Energy in-equivalence in Australian marsupials: evidence for disruption of the continent's mammal assemblage, or are rules meant to be broken? by Munn, Adam J, Dunne, Craig, Müller, Dennis W H, Clauss, Marcus

“…The energy equivalence rule (EER) is a macroecological hypothesis that posits that total population energy use (PEU) should be independent of species body…”
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Does body mass convey a digestive advantage for large herbivores? by Steuer, Patrick, Südekum, Karl‐Heinz, Tütken, Thomas, Müller, Dennis W. H, Kaandorp, Jacques, Bucher, Martin, Clauss, Marcus, Hummel, Jürgen, McArthur, Clare

“…A key concept of body mass (BM) in niche separation of large herbivores assumes that the decrease in diet quality inherent to increasing BM (due to less…”
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Root growth compensates for molar wear in adult goats (Capra aegagrus hircus) by Ackermans, Nicole L., Clauss, Marcus, Winkler, Daniela E., Schulz‐Kornas, Ellen, Kaiser, Thomas M., Müller, Dennis W. H., Kircher, Patrick R., Hummel, Jürgen, Hatt, Jean‐Michel

“…One reason for the mammalian clade’s success is the evolutionary diversity of their teeth. In herbivores, this is represented by high‐crowned teeth evolved to…”
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macroscopic intestinal anatomy of a lowland tapir (Tapirus terrestris) by Hagen, Katharina, Müller, Dennis W. H, Wibbelt, Gudrun, Ochs, Andreas, Hatt, Jean-Michel, Clauss, Marcus

“…Tapirs are the only group among the perissodactyls for which no recent description of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) exists. Historical depictions of the GIT…”
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Comparative analyses of longevity and senescence reveal variable survival benefits of living in zoos across mammals by Tidière, Morgane, Gaillard, Jean-Michel, Berger, Vérane, Müller, Dennis W. H., Bingaman Lackey, Laurie, Gimenez, Olivier, Clauss, Marcus, Lemaître, Jean-François

“…While it is commonly believed that animals live longer in zoos than in the wild, this assumption has rarely been tested. We compared four survival metrics…”
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Putting zoo animal cancer into perspective by Clauss, Marcus, Müller, Dennis W. H.

“…As part of a comparative research agenda that promises insights that help extend the human lifespan and combat cancer, cancer prevalence in zoo animals has…”
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