Levi Dethlefs

After having completed my bachelor thesis on trabecular bone functional adaptation in carnivorous mammals, I am now finishing up my master thesis. The project aims at elucidating biomechanical differences and similarities in the shoulder joints of subterranean mammals by employing 6 degree of freedom range of motion analysis. The results may help to shed light on the diversity of forelimb digging strategies. A behaviour which previously has largely been classified into only two categories.