Re: Bipedalism in different substrates

From: NA Sides (nas_at_sonic.net)
Date: 06/29/04 

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:21:04 GMT

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 09:15:06 +0100, Pauline M Ross
<pmross@ross-software.co.uk> wrote:

>>creature of apith size? By the way, which tapirs?
>
>Dunno. My list (from John Langdon's paper) just says 'Tapirus'/Tapir
>which covers all of them. As to the size thing, the babirusa is much
>the same size as an apith, no?

Should the babirusa actually be considered semi-aquatic? Apparently
they're good swimmers, but (in an admittedly brief net search) I found
nothing indicating they spend more time in water than most other
suids. The claims that they are especially aquatic seem only to appear
on AAT websites and forums.

NAS

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