Discrimination between envenomated and nonenvenomated prey by western diamondback rattlesnakes (Crotalus atrox): Chemosensory consequences of venom

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 3, 1999, Pages 640-648

  Chiszar, David ^a   Walters, Adam ^a   Urbaniak, Joseph ^a   Smith, Hobart M ^a   Mackessy, Stephen P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROTALUS ATROX;

EID: 0033516879     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1447596     Document Type: Article

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