Pigmy rattlesnakes use frog-derived chemical cues to select foraging sites

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 3, 1999, Pages 772-774

  Roth, Eric D ^a   May, Peter G ^a   Farrell, Terence M ^a  

^a STETSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CUE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PREDATOR; SNAKE;

EID: 0033517013     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1447612     Document Type: Article

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