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Hiroshi Matsui¹, Gavin R. Hunt², Katja Oberhofer³, Naomichi Ogihara⁴, Kevin J. McGowan⁵, Kumar Mithraratne³, Takeshi Yamasaki⁶, Russell D. Gray²,⁷ & Ei-Ichi Izawa¹. Adaptive bill morphology for enhanced tool manipulation in New Caledonian crows. Scientific Reports. March 9th, 2016.

Publication Date
March 2016

How Analyze was Used
“We used a 3D landmark analysis to compare the overall bill shapes of the 11 species. Cross-sectional images of the head of each specimen were obtained with a micro-CT scanner (LaTheta LCT-100, Hitachi Aloka Medical, Tokyo, Japan). We next created a 3D reconstruction of each skull as a triangular mesh model based on the marching cube method, with an in-plane resolution of 0.2 mm/pixel and a gap size of 0.2 mm between images (image processing software Analyze 9.0, AnalyzeDirect, Overland Park, KS, USA).”

Keywords
Biomechanics
Evolutionary ecology

Author Affiliation(s)
¹Department of Psychology, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
²School of Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
³Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
⁴Department of Mechanical Engineering, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan.
⁵Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York, USA.
⁶Yamashina Institute for Ornithology, Abiko, Japan.
⁷Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany.

Tags: Biomechanics, Micro-Computed Tomography