Sedentary snakes and gullible geckos: Predator-prey coevolution in nocturnal rock-dwelling reptiles

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1373-1385

  Downes, Sharon ^a   Shine, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CUE; COEVOLUTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOUR; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

HOPLOCEPHALUS BUNGAROIDES; OEDURA LESUEURII; RHINOPLOCEPHALUS NIGRESCENS;

EID: 0032077338     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0704     Document Type: Article

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