A new method of age determination for mammals

Laws, R.M.. 1952 A new method of age determination for mammals. Nature, 169 (4310). 972-973. https://doi.org/10.1038/169972b0

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Abstract/Summary

For estimating the age of mammals such widely differing characters as coat colour, size, skull proportions and sutures, ossification, numbers of corpora albicantes, changes in the lens of the eye, etc., have been used; but such methods are laborious and frequently yield only an approximate result. While working on the elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) in 1949, a new and accurate method of determining age, depending upon cyclical variation in the rate and manner of calcification of the teeth, was developed. This makes possible determination of age, to within a month, up to at least twenty years in the male, and thirteen years in the female.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1038/169972b0
ISSN:	0028-0836
NORA Subject Terms:	Biology and Microbiology
Date made live:	19 Feb 2020 12:00 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/526973

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1038/169972b0

ISSN:

0028-0836

NORA Subject Terms:

Biology and Microbiology

Date made live:

19 Feb 2020 12:00 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/526973