“…This historical paucity of in vivo studies of dental microwear has been recently alleviated to some degree by postmortem studies of animals either recovered in the wild or obtained in laboratory settings (e.g., Calandra, Labonne, Schulz‐Kornas, Kaiser, & Montuire, ; Calandra, Zub, Sazafranska, Zalewski, & Merceron, ; Daegling et al, ; Merceron, Escarguel, Angibault, Verheyden‐Tixier, , Merceron et al, , ; Ramdarshan et al, , ; Schulz et al, ). As the diets of these animals were either known or controlled by the investigators, this work has allowed researchers to gain new insights into topics like seasonal differences in diet/dental microwear and the microwear patterns caused by foods with specific properties.…”