Figure 4 in Elbow-joint morphology as a guide to forearm function and foraging behaviour in mammalian carnivores

Figure 4. Box-plots of PC2 for recent carnivorans. The largest dispersion is found among the canids, followed by felids and viverrids. The former two are right skewed and the latter left skewed. The cheetah (Felidae) forms an extreme outlier. 'Musteloids' comprise a monophyletic clade including mustelids (weasels, badgers and otters), skunks, the lesser panda (Ailurus fulgens) and procyonids. Box-plots include information on location, dispersion, skewness and tail-shape (McGill, Turkey & Larsen, 1978; Benjamini, 1988). Box heights represent the interquartile range, which comprises 50% of the observations. Boxes are divided by medians (thin lines) and means (thick lines). Whiskers connect boxes to the extremal points within 1.5 interquartile ranges. Points outside these ranges are plotted individually. Dispersion of observation is indicated by box height and skewness, by box and whisker asymmetry.