Straight-line movement and competitive mate searching in prairie rattlesnakes, Crotalus viridis viridis

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 329-334

  Duvall, David ^a   Schuett, Gordon W ^b  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY WEST   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROTALUS; CROTALUS VIRIDIS; CROTALUS VIRIDIS VIRIDIS; SERPENTES;

EID: 0031214377     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0418     Document Type: Article

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