Veterinary Archives, Vol. 82 No. 1, 2012.
Original scientific paper
Preliminary osteometrical analysis of metapodium and acropodium bones of fallow deer (Dama dama L.) from the Brijuni Islands (Croatia).
Tajana Trbojević Vukičević
orcid.org/0000-0002-8151-7380
; Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Ivan Alić
; Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Alen Slavica
; Department for Game Biology, Pathology and Breeding, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Marko Poletto
; Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Snježana Kuži
; Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to measure the length and width proportions of the metapodial bones and phalanges of fallow deer (Dama dama L.) from the Brijuni Islands (Croatia) and correlate those osteometrical values with body mass. The osteometrical analysis included 28 metapodial bones and 168 phalanges of seven individual fallow deer of known age, sex and weight. The descriptive statistics for the obtained measurements show that the variability coefficient is less than 10% for the metapodial bone measurements and the phalanges length values, and greater than 10% for the width measurements. Comparison of osteometrical values for all the bones with body mass shows a negative correlation. After excluding the measurement values for the three juvenile individuals, the correlation becomes highly positive. Width measurements correlate better with body mass than the length measurements. Osteometrical studies are invaluable as only these data derived from recent populations can be compared with ancient animal populations in interdisciplinary archaeo-zoological investigations.
Keywords
fallow deer; Brijuni Islands; osteometrical analysis; Croatia
Hrčak ID:
77402
URI
Publication date:
6.2.2012.
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