US and Belgian biologists and zoologists examine the myriad solutions to the essential problem of feeding among four-footed animals, synthesizing research into both the behaviors and their evolution. Introductory chapters establish the conceptual, historical, and factual contexts within which to interpret the empirical chapters that follow. They survey feeding systems more or less phylogenetically, though some chapters are based on functional types such as marine mammals, dietary types such as myrmecophagous mammals, or the medium in which feeding occurs such as aquatic feeding salamanders.Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR