Predation risk and state-dependent foraging in scorpions: Effects of moonlight on foraging in the scorpion Buthus occitanus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 49-57

  Skutelsky, Orit ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTHUS OCCITANUS; SCORPIONES;

MOONLIGHT; SCORPION;

EID: 0030176774     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0151     Document Type: Article

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