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Intraguild Predation and Interspecific Killing as Structuring Forces of Carnivoran Communities in South America
(Springer, 2014-12)
Intraguild predation (IGP) and interspecific killing (IK) have been recently acknowledged as important ecological forces that could influence community structure. Not only can carnivores influence prey community composition, ...
Trophic segregation of small carnivorans (Carnivora: Mustelidae and Mephitidae) from the southern cone of south America
(Springer, 2013-09-29)
Remarkable adaptations in the Carnivora have evolved as a way of dealing with feeding competition, accen- tuating hypocarnivorous or hypercarnivorous morphotypes. The Carnivora is a highly successful order with 47 living ...
Locomotion in rodents and small carnivorans: Are they so different?
(Springer, 2020-08-04)
Rodents and carnivorans constitute two diverse clades with variable life habits. To analyze the common ecomorphological aspects of their limbs in relation to their different substrate uses, the shape of humerus and femur ...
Paleoparasitological analysis of a coprolite assigned to a carnivoran mammal from the upper pleistocene touro passo formation, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
(2021-01-01)
A paleoparasitological analysis was carried out on a large coprolite assigned to a carnivoran mammal, recovered from the Municipality of Uruguaiana, in the western region of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, where ...
Comparative osteology and functional morphology of the forelimb of Cyonasua (Mammalia, Procyonidae), the first South American carnivoran
(Wiley-liss, Div John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2019-03)
Extant procyonids only inhabit the Americas and are represented by six genera (Procyon, Nasua, Nasuella, Bassaricyon, Potos, and Bassariscus); all of them, except Bassariscus, are present in South America. The first records ...
Cyonasua (Carnivora, Procyonidae) from Late Miocene of Peru Shed Light on the Early Dispersal of Carnivorans in South America
(Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2020-08)
The oldest record of a carnivoran mammal in South America corresponds to the extinct procyonid Cyonasua (late Miocene–early Pleistocene). Up to now, this genus was recorded in Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, and Venezuela. ...