... of biomechanical properties of temporal osteoderms in 11 lizard species reveals significant differences in stiffness between taxa, reflecting differences in microstructure and macrostructure and, likely, in function. Bone Functional morphology Squamata Osteoderms Stiffness Strain gauges Human...

... of the incurrent air and WVD e is the water vapour density of the excurrent air. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000038 RGPIN-2014-05814 Lepidosauria Squamata Reptile Water Temperature Scale Fig. 2. Evaporative water...

... in resisting the feeding loads. Lepidosauria Squamata Skull Feeding Finite element analysis Multibody dynamic analysis References Ahrens , J. , Geveci , B. and Law , C. ( 2005 ). ParaView: an end-user tool for large-data visualization . In Visualization Handbook (ed...

... to green iguanas, where ventilation is dominated by the true ribs. Varanus Respiration Trunk Squamata Costal movement What is the relationship between the design of the lung and the trunk in vertebrates? The use of costal inspiration and expiration is likely to be the basal condition...

.... Fossorial Gymnophthalmidae Metabolism Nocturnal Squamata Temperature Shifts in ecological niches likely affect the thermal regimes experienced by organisms ( Huey et al., 1989 ; Meiri et al., 2013 ) and are of particular relevance for vertebrate ectotherms, as temperature strongly influences...

... axis. In amniotes with double-headed ribs, rib motion is constrained primarily to one degree-of-freedom (DOF) rotation about an axis connecting the two rib articulations. However, in Squamata, the ribs are single headed and the hemispherical costovertebral joints permit rotations with three DOF...

... Department, Siena College, 515 Loudon Road, Loudonville, NY 12211, USA © 2013. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2013 locomotion biomechanics balance lateral undulation axial squamata Many phylogenetically diverse lineages of animals use axial bending for propulsion ( Gray...

...-mail: [email protected] ) 27 6 2002 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2002 2002 acoustic communication reptilia squamata hearing behaviour western diamondback rattlesnake Crotalus atrox Recently there has been a growing appreciation of the complexity of the behavioural...

... evidence for foraging by vibration detection in snakes and the strongest evidence to date that snakes are capable of ‘hearing’ vibrational stimuli. *e-mail: [email protected] 10 12 2001 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2002 2002 feeding prey capture Reptilia squamata...

... squamata functional morphology kinematics rattlesnake Crotalus atrox. © The Company of Biologists Limited 2001 2001 28 9 2001 *e-mail: [email protected] References Allon, N. and Kochva, E. ( 1974 ). The quantities of venom injected into prey of different size...