The use of yellow spot colors as a sexual receptivity signal in females of Chamaeleo chamaeleon

Herpetologica

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 395-402

  Cuadrado, Mariano ^a,b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chamaeleo; Color pattern; Communication; Signalling

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; MATING BEHAVIOR; SIGNAL;

CHAMAELEO CHAMAELEON;

EID: 0031690471     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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