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IIRC only primates have clavicles, but I'm not sure. Anyone clarify? Preacherdoc 18:32, 16 July 2006 (UTC)Preacherdoc.

To my knowledge, only animals that fly and climb do have clavicles (e.g. not animals walking on four legs). The main function for the clavicle is to keep the upper extremity hanging on the lateral side of the thorax.

/ Mats Halldin 13:21, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for reply. I thought birds had a furcula rather than clavicles. Do bats have clavicles?Preacherdoc 21:35, 22 July 2006 (UTC).

Contents 1 Images 2 Just a help 3 Postal 2, Postal Dude 4 people without clavicles ?

[edit] Images

I've been studying the two photos for a while. Isn't this in fact the right, not the left, clavicle? Compare to the two illustrations (of the left clavicle) in Gray's Anatomy.
Mats Halldin 13:21, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

I think you may be right (no pun!). The lower photograph clearly shows the tubercle for attachment of the coraco-clavicular ligament, which is always at the distal end on the inferior aspect. This would make it the right clavicle. Another awkward bone to lateralise is the fibula. Preacherdoc 21:35, 22 July 2006 (UTC).

Ok, thanks! I changed the captions in the article.

/ Mats Halldin 08:34, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Just a help

I just put (arms) next to uper limbs in the "functions" section just to let u know

T-o-b-y-k-n-i-g-h-t-s 07:53, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Postal 2, Postal Dude

What is this reference? 198.54.202.94 (talk) 19:38, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] people without clavicles ?

I saw once a documentary about mutations and there were shown people that can normally live from birth without clavicles, theres a mutation causing it - and can be traced back for 2 hundred years to an Arabic trader who settled there, but I can't find any info about it on the web pwjbbb (talk) 11:26, 23 February 2008 (UTC)