Aquatic Foraging in Garter Snakes: A Comparison of Specialists and Generalists

Behaviour

Volumn 86, Issue 1-2, 1983, Pages 1-30

  Drummond, Hugh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NERODIA SUPEDON; THAMNOPHIS COUCHI; THAMNOPHIS ELEGANS; THAMNOPHIS MELANOGASTER; THAMNOPHIS SIRTALIS;

EID: 0020867254     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853983X00543     Document Type: Article

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