The role of the vomeronasal organ of crotalines (Reptilia: Serpentes: Viperidae) in predator detection

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 53-57

  Miller, Lynda R ^a   Gutzke, William H N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; AVOIDANCE REACTION; CHEMICAL CUE; SNAKE;

CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); CROTALINAE; LAMPROPELTIS; LAMPROPELTIS GETULA; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; VIPERIDAE; VIPERINAE;

EID: 0032773838     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1126     Document Type: Article

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