Comparative anatomy of the vertebrate head was taken a great step forward about a hundred years ago when the Born method of reconstruction - using wax plates - was applied to examination of chondrocrania.
Mammalian mating systems are closely related to the social organisation of a species, which in turn is determined by sex-specific selection pressures with respect to access to limited resources.
... Cryptoprocta ferox is unlikely to be any higher than in the past, when a substantially larger extinct species (Cryptoprocta spelea) probably preyed on lemurs (Goodman et al., 2004; Colquhoun, 2006). Recent data on the activity and ...
... Cryptoprocta spelea went extinct. The only date that is unquestionably referable to the extinct species is from ... ferox is today. By extrapolation, one can imagine it being more of a predator on larger and often terrestrial lemurs, all of ...
... Cryptoprocta ferox in the high mountain zone of the Andringitra Massif , Madagascar ( Carnivora , Viverridae ) . Mammalia , 61 : 185–192 . Goodman , S.M. , Rasoloarison , R. , and Ganzhorn , J.U. ( 2004 ) . On the specific ...