Publications by authors named "Lisa Van Linden"
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- Cognition is crucial for animals to adapt to their environments, but the ecological factors influencing its evolution are unclear.
- Researchers tested 13 species of lacertid lizards on various cognitive tasks and examined the link between their performance and ecological variables like resource availability and habitat complexity.
- While cognitive abilities varied among species, these differences did not strongly correlate with their ecological conditions or life history, except that species in more variable environments showed reduced behavioral flexibility, possibly due to energy limitations.
Bite force is often associated with specific morphological features, such as sagittal crests. The presence of a pronounced sagittal crest in some tapirs (Perissodactyla: Tapiridae) was recently shown to be negatively correlated with hard-object feeding, in contrast with similar cranial structures in carnivorans. The aim of this study was to investigate bite forces and sagittal crest heights across a wide range of modern and extinct tapirs and apply a comparative investigation to establish whether these features are correlated across a broad phylogenetic scope.
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