GROSS OSTEOLOGICAL STUDIES ON THE HUMERUS OF LEOPARD (Panthera pardus)

Abstract

A study was carried out on the humerus of two leopards (Panthera pardus). It presented a shaft and two extremities. The shaft had four surfaces —medial, lateral, cranial and caudal. The lateral surface had a shallow musculospiral groove. The media! surface was nearly straighf. Teres major tuberosity was not prominent. In the crania) surface the crest of humerus presented a low ridge the deltoid tuberosity. The Proxima! extremity consisted of an oval head, an intertubera! groove and greater and lesser tubercles. At the disfal extremity, the humeral condyle was divided into small lateral capitulum humeri and large medial trochlea humeri. They articulated with the radius and the ulna respectively to form the elbow joint. The media! and lateral epicondyles were located caudoproximal to the margins of trochlea and capitulum humeri respectively. Immediately above the medial epicondyle a slit like supracondylar foramen was noticed. The radial and olecranon fossa occupied the cranial and caudal parts of the distal extremity of humerus respectively

Keywords

• numerus
• anatomy
• leopard