Juvenile toads avoid chemical cues from snake predators

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 641-646

  Flowers, Matthew A ^a   Graves, Brent M ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CUE; EASTERN PLAINS GARTER SNAKE; GREAT PLAINS TOAD; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; SOUTHWESTERN TOAD;

USA, ARIZONA; USA, SOUTH DAKOTA;

BUFO COGNATUS; BUFOR MICROSCAPHUS; SCELOPORUS UNDULATUS; THAMNOPHIS RADIX;

EID: 0031082130     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0338     Document Type: Article

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