Lingual and biting responses to prey chemicals by ingestively naive scincid lizards: Discrimination from control chemicals, time course, and effect of method of stimulus presentation

Chemoecology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 51-58

  Cooper Jr , William E ^a   Hartdegen, Ruston ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

^b Dallas Zoological Society   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Chemoreception; Mabuya maculari; Reptilia; Scincella, lateralis; Scincidae; Squamata; Tongue flicking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002418468     PISSN: 09377409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000490050008     Document Type: Article

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