Body measurements for a sample of 28 mammal species from a Fitch paper on acoustic allometry
A data frame with 28 observations on the following 6 variables.
species of mammal
Order (Carnivora or Primates)
Body weight (in kg)
Skull length (in cm)
Palate length (in cm)
Source
Fitch, W. Tecumseh (2000), "Skull dimensions in relation to body size in nonhuman mammals: The causal bases for acoustic allometry," Zoology, 103, 40-58.
Use the following R code to directly access this dataset in R.