... to drive into ductile food, and may not puncture the food. Tooth wear Tooth morphology Puncture performance Mammal Canine Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment – Equity Trustees Charitable Foundation & the Ecological Society of Australia Australian Government...

...), first principal strain and the distribution of strains in a diversity of canonical durophagous tooth morphologies. By changing the way loads were applied to the models, I was also able to model the effects of large and small prey items. Tooth models with overall convex morphologies have higher in-model...

..., PO Box 1346, Kaneohe, HI 96744, USA (e-mail: [email protected] ). 21 6 1996 ©The Company of Biologists Limited 1996 elasmobranch dentition sexual dimorphism stingray Dasyatis sabina Dasyatidae phenotypic plasticity seasonal tooth morphology The evolution...