Bite force sexual dimorphism in Canidae (Mammalia: Carnivora): relations between diet, sociality and bite force intersexual differences

Acknowledgements We are thankful to the following curators and/or collection managers for access to the specimens used in this study under their care, help during our visits or loans: Robert Voss, Teresa Pacheco, John Flynn and Judy Galkin (AMNH); Bruce Patterson (FMNH) and Robert Fisher (USNM). We are thankful to Erika Hingst-Zaher, for her collaboration in the earlier studies that resulted in this dataset, to Alessandra Lamarca and Carlos Schrago for providing us the files with their phylogenetic tree, and to an anonymous reviewer for suggestions that improved our manuscript. This work was developed while ARM received an undergraduate fellowship from FACEPE. ARM is now supported by a doctoral fellowship from CAPES. EMD was supported by fellowships from FACEPE and CNPq, and DA is or was supported by grants from CNPq, CAPES, FACEPE, and FAPESP for the acquisition of equipment used for data collection and during its development. Abstract