Predatory combat and tail wrestling in hierarchical contests of the Neotropical rattlesnake Crotalus durissus terrificus (Serpentes: Viperidae)

Amphibia Reptilia

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 88-96

  Almeida Santos, Selma Maria ^a   Da Graça Salomão, Maria ^a   Aparecida Peneti, Elaine ^b   Sérgio De Sena, Paulo ^c   Santos Guimarães, Eduardo ^b  

^a INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^b Faculdade do Bico do Papagaio FABIC   (Brazil)

^c Centro Universit rio Salesiano de S o Paulo   (Brazil)

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EID: 0013406870     PISSN: 01735373     EISSN: 15685381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853899X00105     Document Type: Article

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