Kim Chandler
@kimchandler.bsky.social
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Natural History Collections Assistant at National Museum of Ireland. PhD in Red Squirrel Craniomandibular Morphology and Biomechanics.
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Kim Chandler
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Kim Chandler
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· Jan 17
Human-fed red squirrels in Britain develop weaker jaws and flatter skulls
A large team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.K. has found evidence that red squirrels fed by humans in a town on England's west coast lost muscle mass and experienced chan...
phys.org
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Kim Chandler
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· Jan 15
Kim Chandler
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· Jan 15
Morphological change in an isolated population of red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) in Britain | Royal Society Open Science
The mechanical properties of dietary items are known to influence skull morphology,
either through evolution or by phenotypic plasticity. Here, we investigated the impact
of supplementary feeding of p...
royalsocietypublishing.org
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