Effects of feeding on body temperatures of rattlesnakes: A field experiment

Physiological Zoology

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1442-1455

  Beck, Daniel D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY TEMPERATURE; FEEDING; RATTLESNAKE; THERMOREGULATION;

USA, ARIZONA, SONARAN DESERT;

CROTALUS;

EID: 0030301882     PISSN: 0031935X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/physzool.69.6.30164268     Document Type: Article

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