Dear Andrea,
Absolutely fascinating!
Well, although not using GM methods, the book by William B. Evans & Alexey
V. Yablokov, "Noninvasive Study of Mammalian Populations" (Sofia/Moscow:
Pensoft, 2004) provides a lot of interesting ideas and insights on the use
of analytical techniques for living,
Dear All,
this out now: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10./jzs.12276
“Nose‐metrics” of wild southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) males
using image analysis and geometric morphometrics
JZSER, online first
As far as I know, it's one of the few applications of GMM on data from