... species. These results illustrate how prey properties impact grasping and manipulation strategies in an aquatic frog and shed further light on the ecological contexts that may have given rise to the origin of grasping in frogs. * These authors contributed equally to this work ‡ Author...

...–feeding integration in response to prey properties itself has yet to be investigated. Knowing whether integrated movements can be flexible is thus of interest for our understanding of the mechanisms that drive complex behaviors like feeding. Similar to some other cordyliform lizards, the prey-capture...

...Keith A. Metzger SUMMARY Studies of the functional morphology of feeding have typically not included an analysis of the potential for the kinematics of the gape cycle to vary based on the material properties of the prey item being consumed. Variation in prey properties is expected not only...