Ecology, Conservation and Management of Wild Pigs and Peccaries

20 Chapter 2 Postcranial Skeletal Morphology in Living and Fossil African Suidae Laura C. Bishop This paper examines the postcra ...

Chapter 2: Postcranial skeletal morphology in African Suidae 21 (McMahon 1975; Scott 1979, 1985). One possible explanation for t ...

v Part I: Evolution, Taxonomy, and Domestication 22 the greater trochanter height is shorter relative to the functional length o ...

Chapter 2: Postcranial skeletal morphology in African Suidae 23 The sustentaculum tali is relatively long and narrow in the open ...

v Part I: Evolution, Taxonomy, and Domestication 24 suggesting that relative elongation of the limbs is a characteristic of curs ...

Chapter 2: Postcranial skeletal morphology in African Suidae 25 locomotor habits of suids. However, a pig-like body plan can pos ...

v Part I: Evolution, Taxonomy, and Domestication 26 stratigraphic placement (Feibel et al. 1989). All of its bones are fragmenta ...

Chapter 2: Postcranial skeletal morphology in African Suidae 27 References Bishop, L. C. (1994). Pigs and the ancestors: hominid ...

v Part I: Evolution, Taxonomy, and Domestication 28 with East African Acheulean technology. Science 305: 75–78. Savage, R. J. G. ...

29 Chapter 3 Diet and Ecology of Extant and Fossil Wild Pigs Antoine Souron Introduction Most extant wild pig species (Suidae) a ...

Part I: Evolution, Taxonomy, and Domestication 30 The extant species of Potamochoerus are typical omnivorous suids. The premolar ...

Chapter 3: Diet and ecology of extant and fossil wild pigs 31 Figure 3.2 Changes in third molar morphology and stable carbon iso ...

Part I: Evolution, Taxonomy, and Domestication 32 moderately elongated with main cusps that are more numerous than in Potamochoe ...

Chapter 3: Diet and ecology of extant and fossil wild pigs 33 and in higher latitudes in other continents, C 4 grasses are very ...

Part I: Evolution, Taxonomy, and Domestication 34 Results and Discussion Figures 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3 illustrate the morphological ...

Chapter 3: Diet and ecology of extant and fossil wild pigs 35 to place the morphology and diet of the suids within a larger phys ...

Part I: Evolution, Taxonomy, and Domestication 36 The dramatic dental adaptations in African suids can there- fore be considered ...

Chapter 3: Diet and ecology of extant and fossil wild pigs 37 to use photographs of the fossils collected by the Omo Group Resea ...

Part I: Evolution, Taxonomy, and Domestication 38 Merceron, G., Ramdarshan, A., Blondel, C., et al. (2016). Untangling the envir ...

39 Chapter 4 A History of Pig Domestication: New Ways of Exploring a Complex Process Allowen Evin, Keith Dobney, and Thomas Cucc ...