Defensive secretion of a flightless grasshopper: Failure to prevent lizard attack

Chemoecology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 184-188

  Hatle, John D ^a   Townsend Jr , Victor R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anolis; Aposematism; Chemical defense; Learned aversion; Lizard foraging; Orthoptera; Romalea guttata; Romaleidae; Sceloporus; Unpalatability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011320884     PISSN: 09377409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01266311     Document Type: Article

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