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The Nuances of Locomotor Strategies in Suspensory Primates (Apes): Locomotor Costs in Terms of Skeletal Injury
<p>Injury may be a significant locomotor cost, in that a severely injured animal may be unable to secure enough food to maintain normal activities, avoid predation, or find mates. Thus, safety is as likely as energetics to be the impetus of natural selection, and both have potential to impact …
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The cost of locomotion in North Atlantic right whales (<italic>Eubalaena glacialis</italic>)
… in storing enough energy to meet the</p><p>costs of reproduction. The goal of this study was to determine whether increases in</p><p>moving between prey patches at the cost of decreased foraging opportunities could</p><p>shift these whales into a situation of negative energy gain. The first …
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Kinetics and Energetics of Feeding Behaviors in Daubentonia madagascariensis
… on the mandibular incisor. 3) The energetic costs of feeding were positively correlated with the toughness of foods. 4) The rate of energetic costs (J/s) incurred during the processing and mastication of whole nuts is not significantly greater than the rate of costs to masticate small pieces …