A cost of viviparity and parental care in scorpions: Reduced sprint speed and behavioural compensation

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1017-1024

  Shaffer, Lawrence R ^a   Formanowicz Jr , Daniel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARENTAL CARE; VIVIPARITY;

CENTRUROIDES VITTATUS; SCORPIONES;

EID: 0030131632     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0104     Document Type: Article

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