Anatomical Correlates to Nectar Feeding among the Strepsirrhines of Madagascar: Implications for Interpreting the Fossil Record

Table 3

Results of a Tukey post-hoc test (significance set at 𝑃<0.05) for each pairwise comparison between feeding behavior categories.

	Nondestructive nectar feeders		Nectar feeders with unknown feeding behavior
	Ratio	Residual	Ratio	Residual
Destructive
Total skull length	0.02	0.02	0.003 ^1	0.56
Total palate length	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.48
Maximum palate width	0.04	0.01	0.003	0.05
Total dentary length	0.02	0.02	0.2	0.85
Maximum tooth row	0.05	0.05	0.87	0.99
Temporal muscle size	0.24	0.31	0.04	0.88
Nondestructive nectar feeders
Total skull length			0.07	0.27
Total palate length			0.99	0.8
Maximum palate width			0.64	0.09
Total dentary length			0.57	0.12
Maximum tooth row			0.19	0.09
Temporal muscle size			0.67	0.64

¹Bolded values indicate results that differ between ratio- and residual-based size-adjustment method.