New Finding Helps Understand Feeding Ecology of Pleistocene Proboscideans (IMAGE)

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters

New Finding Helps Understand Feeding Ecology of Pleistocene Proboscideans

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Interpretive illustration of proboscidean feeding ecology in the Late Pleistocene of southern China. Elephas (left) incoporates more graze in its diet; whereas Stegodon (right) is an obligate browser of fresh shoots and leaves.

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Image by Nicola Heath

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