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Subject: Definition of "Shoulder Height" and "Height at Shoulder"
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:33:05 -0400
From: Bill Sellers <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Dear All,
I apologise if this is a trivial question but I want to do some lateral
view measurements on a variety of quadrupeds and I wanted to check that
I'm getting the definition of "shoulder height" or "height at shoulder"
correct. I've seen the definition:
"Shoulder Height (SH) Height from the ground to the top of the shoulder
when the animal is standing" (Francis, C. M. 2008 A Field Guide to the
Mammals of South-East Asia)
What I'm not clear about is whether this means the upper margin of the
scapula or the maximum height of the animal at the level of the scapula.
In most quadrupeds it doesn't make very much (if any) difference but for
things like buffalo where the neural spines are very long then it makes
a great deal of difference and papers where this is measured don't make
it all clear what they actually did.
Cheers
Bill
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