Meal size and specific dynamic action in the rattlesnake Crotalus durissus (Serpentes: Viperidae)

Herpetologica

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 485-493

  Andrade, Denis V ^a   Cruz Neto, Ariovaldo P ^a   Abe, Augusto S ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Digestion; Energetics; Feeding; Metabolism; Oxygen uptake; SDA

Indexed keywords

CROTALUS DURISSUS;

EID: 0031417624     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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