A comparative study of facial grooming after prey ingestion in colubrid snakes

Ethology

Volumn 105, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 913-936

  Cunningham, Daniel S ^a   Burghardt, Gordon M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; PREDATION;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOOD CONSUMPTION; GROOMING; PHYLOGENETICS; RELATEDNESS; SNAKE;

CYCLOPHIOPS SEMICARINATUS; STORERIA DEKAYI; THAMNOPHIS BUTLERI; THAMNOPHIS MELANOGASTER; THAMNOPHIS SIRTALIS;

EID: 0032698917     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.1999.00480.x     Document Type: Article

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