Scaling of Skeletal Mass to Body Mass in Birds and Mammals
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 113 (1) , 103-122
- https://doi.org/10.1086/283367
Abstract
New data on the allometric relationship of skeletal mass to body mass of birds and mammals indicate that the avian skeleton is not proportionately lighter than that of mammals. Pneumatization may make some birds'' bones lighter, but the leg bones of birds are more robust than those of mammals. This results in an internal redistribution rather than a reduction of skeletal mass.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: