The consistency of individual differences in behaviour: Temperature effects on antipredator behaviour in garter snakes

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 445-451

  Brodie III, Edmund D ^a   Russell, Nevelyn H ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

SERPENTES; THAMNOPHIS; THAMNOPHIS ORDINOIDES;

EID: 0033082472     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0990     Document Type: Article

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