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Sexual Dimorphism in Molar Progression and Eruption in the Agile Wallaby

AE Newsome, JC Merchant, BL Bolton and ML Dudzinski

Australian Wildlife Research 4(1) 1 - 5
Published: 1977

Abstract

Male and female agile wallabies with the same dental pattern are of different ages. Males grow faster and acquire their teeth earlier. It seems probable that other sexually dimorphic kangaroos and wallabies have similar differences. A statistical model for molar progression is suggested.

https://doi.org/10.1071/WR9770001

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